“Proposed a public safety reform package that includes repealing the 2018 bail changes and asking the Legislature to adjust the 'Raise the Age' thresholds for juvenile criminal accountability.”
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Adversarial re-check: all three cited sources were fetched independently and are real, live, and accurately quoted. (1) legislature.vermont.gov S.195 confirms 'An act relating to how a defendant's criminal record is considered in imposing conditions of release,' signed by the Governor May 30, 2024 as Act 138. (2) legislature.vermont.gov S.58 confirms 'An act relating to public safety,' signed May 29, 2024 as Act 125, covering fentanyl/xylazine penalties, eviction procedures, and juvenile 'raise the age' provisions. (3) The VTDigger piece is live and contains the exact quoted sentence -- 'Wheeler said in an email that Scott wanted the cap on bail to be lifted entirely, not just in certain circumstances' -- and independently enumerates Scott's proposed package as toughening drug penalties, delaying Raise the Age, adding serious crimes for adult-court charging, repealing bail-law changes, and increasing accountability for pretrial-release violations. It also confirms the Legislature kept the 2018 $200 misdemeanor bail cap with only a carve-out for offenses committed while on pretrial release, and delayed Raise the Age to April 2025 rather than adopting Scott's broader ask. Outcome test: Scott, as the executive, originated and publicly drove this package across the 2024 session and signed the two resulting acts, so he did far more than cast a supporting vote -- that is CHAMPIONED (+0.75) under the rubric's 'actively LED/drove the effort, even if not fully enacted.' Neither of his two headline asks landed in full (no full bail repeal; a Raise the Age delay rather than a threshold change), which is why FULL is wrong and why the score sits below +1.0. PARTIAL (+0.5) was considered and rejected because it understates documented executive leadership; the same label would be applied to an opposing-party governor who proposed a package, pushed it through a hostile chamber, and signed a watered-down enactment. No partisan tilt detected in the prior rating. One caveat: the prior rationale's added claim of a further Raise the Age delay to 2027 signed in March 2025 was NOT re-verified in this pass (web-search budget exhausted); it is not load-bearing and has been dropped from the finding. Confidence trimmed from 0.82 to 0.80 to reflect that unverified tail.
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