Gov. Scott vetoes bill prohibiting deceptive interrogations of young people

MONTPELIER — Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill aimed at prohibiting deceptive and coercive interrogations by police of minors and young adults. Scott wrote in his veto message to lawmakers Thursday that the bill “started out as a reasonable approach to expand existing constitutional protections prohibiting deceptive and coercive interrogations for juvenile offenders under the age of 18." But the legislation that passed offers the protections to young offenders up to the age of 22, and would have made Vermont an outlier, at a time when communities...