VPR's Mitch Wertlieb speaks with Allen Gilbert, Executive Director of the Vermont chapter of the ACLU prior to Thursday's conference with civil liberties groups who are concerned about the lack of government transparency in Vermont.  

A Vermont judge has been asked to release documents showing how criminal investigators might have attempted to track the whereabouts of Vermonters via their cell phones. 

Vermont received an F in a survey on campaign finance disclosure. We look at why the state fared so poorly and what can be done to improve transparency in this area. Plus, we hear about a Catholic relic that has been in Vermont since the 1890s.

Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell says he's not aware of any non-emergency situations where cell phone records were requested by state authorities without first getting court approval.

Cell phone technology can be used by authorities to track where people are. And the American Civil Liberties Union wants to know whether law enforcement uses the technology in Vermont.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is suing Brattleboro police for arresting protesters at a speech by the governor. Governor Jim Douglas was speaking at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro last March when four audience members rose from their seats.

A sex offender ordered to get out of Barre is now suing the city, claiming a residency restriction unfairly bars him from living there.

A former shop owner in Middlebury is suing the town for blocking him from selling salvia divinorum, an herb said to trigger hallucinations when consumed.

The first Vermont municipality to pass an ordinance restricting where sex offenders may live within its borders is expected to draw a legal challenge.

With Congressional approval of a new intelligence gathering law, Vermont will be forced to end its investigation into possible illegal wiretapping activities by a number of phone companies.  

The Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is joining the legal fray between a group of Cuban-Americans and the federal government over travel restrictions to Cuba.

A bill in the Legislature that would prohibit court records from being posted online is reopening debate about Vermont's overall public records law.