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2021 Vermont Statutes
Title 12 - Court Procedure
Chapter 1 - Rules of Court
§ 5. Dissemination of electronic case records

Universal Citation:
12 VT Stats § 5 (2021)
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§ 5. Dissemination of electronic case records

(a) The Court shall not permit public access via the Internet to criminal, family, or probate case records. The Court may permit criminal justice agencies, as defined in 20 V.S.A. § 2056a, Internet access to criminal case records for criminal justice purposes, as defined in 20 V.S.A. § 2056a.

(b) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the Court from providing electronic access to:

      (1) court schedules of the Superior Court, or opinions of the Criminal Division of the Superior Court;

      (2) State agencies in accordance with data dissemination contracts entered into under Rule 6 of the Vermont Rules of Electronic Access to Court Records; or

      (3) decisions, recordings of oral arguments, briefs, and printed cases of the Supreme Court. (Added 2007, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 65; 2013, No. 67, § 9; 2019, No. 40, § 1.)

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