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Vermont enacts statewide law-enforcement facial-recognition ban

Vermont allowed S.124 to become law, imposing a statewide moratorium on law-enforcement use of facial-recognition technology unless the legislature later authorizes it and establishes conditions for use.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM36confidence 96/100

Why it moved the index

The binding statewide moratorium directly removed a consequential AI surveillance capability from law enforcement unless the elected legislature affirmatively restored it under future conditions. Its temporary and single-state scope bounds magnitude; the enacted law, official status record, and contemporaneous reporting support high confidence.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 36 · confidence 96

    New source-verified October 2020 binding governance record absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026

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