U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will lead an hour-long panel discussion -- A Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform: New Approaches for Vermont and the Nation. Leahy and Booker are both at the core of a bipartisan movement on Capitol Hill to forge and enact long-overdue criminal justice reforms. Leahy is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over justice reform legislation.
Joining Senators Leahy and Booker will be these panelists:
-- U.S. Attorney Eric Miller
-- Governor Peter Shumlin
-- Mayor Miro Weinberger
-- Christine Longmore, Burlington Community Center and Burlington
Police Commissioner
-- Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan
-- Emmet Helrich, Rapid Intervention Community Court
-- Kyle Dodson, Burlington YMCA
-- Vicky Smith, King Street Center
