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Title

03APPENDIX

:
Executive Orders






Chapter

013

:
CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE











 

§

EO13-7. (No. 06-14) [Vermont's Statistical Analysis Center

WHEREAS,

consistent and available data about the occurrence of crime and the effects of

the response to crime is needed by various agencies so that policies can be

coordinated and costs can be controlled; and

WHEREAS, state

and local government need access to federal resources relating to the

administration of criminal and juvenile justice; and

WHEREAS, the

U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics ("BJS")

provides funds to states' statistical analysis centers to coordinate criminal

justice statistical information, to conduct research to assist criminal justice

policymakers, and to serve as a liaison between the State and BJS.

NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED that I, Peter Shumlin, by virtue of the power vested in me as

Governor, do hereby designate the Department of Public Safety as Vermont's

statistical analysis center. The Center, directly or through contracted

services, shall collect and analyze criminal and juvenile justice data, and

produce general information and statistical reports on crime, criminal and

juvenile offenders, and the administration of criminal and juvenile justice.

The Center shall

be authorized, in accordance with 32 V.S.A. § 5(a), to apply for and to receive

federal and other grants and funds as may be available, including funds

available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and from the Bureau of Justice

Assistance.

This Executive

Order shall take effect upon signing and supersedes and replaces Executive Order

9-10 (codified as 13-5) dated November 3, 2010, on the same subject.

Dated November

4, 2014.