Vermont public safety officials are vowing to make improvements in a sex offender registry that a recent audit found had critical errors in more than 10 percent of its reports.
Public Safety Commissioner Keith Flynn urged the Legislature's Joint Corrections Oversight Committee to push for information to be supplied to judges so they can more easily decide at the time of sentencing whether someone belongs on the registry and for how long.
He said the decisions on how to apply the law to individuals should not be left to staff at the Vermont Criminal Information Center.
Flynn acknowledged that the current error rates are too high. He said posting on the registry is a serious collateral consequence to some crimes, and that the state needs to get the information right.
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