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Bringing a person to shore for examination was time-consuming and presented logistical problems, Vermont State Police said. The on-water exams have been in use elsewhere for as long as a decade, but not by VSP until now. "Frankly, this has been a blind spot of ours," said Sgt. Jay Riggen of the Vermont State Police, who trains other troopers in detecting cases of boating while intoxicated. "In Vermont, the recreational boating season is so short that I don't think it had the attention from us that it really needed. And we're making that change effective immediately." Riggen acknowledged the n...

Thu, 02/04/2021 - 10:37am -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Vermont resident Gregory Bombard yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging what it called a retaliatory arrest by a Vermont State Police Trooper in February 2018. Represented by the ACLU of Vermont and cooperating counsel Gary Sarachan, Bombard asserts that the trooper involved abused his authority and violated Bombard’s First and Fourth Amendment rights. ACLU of Vermont Senior Staff Attorney Jay Diaz said: “Vermonters who want to protest the actions of police through words or gestures have a constitutionally protected right to do so...

The Mountain Times By Jack Lyons/VTDigger Soon after Vermont’s first wave of Covid-19 deaths subsided in May, another wave of death quickly began to climb: traffic collisions. Crashes at one point surpassed the death toll of the coronavirus, and killed 62 people in the state in 2020, up from 47 the year before. Vermont roads have had less traffic and fewer crashes than usual during the pandemic, but the percentage of crashes that ended in a fatality in 2020 is significantly higher than previous years, according to data from the Agency of Transportation. The summer proved especially deadly ...