Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2071(b), and Fed. R. Civ. P. 83(a)(1), the United States District Court for the District of Vermont gives notice that the proposed amendment to Local Criminal Rule 57.2 published below is being considered for adoption to be effective April 20, 2026. The purpose of the proposed revision is to update the court’s local rule concerning the retention of pretrial service reports to be consistent with recent Judiciary policy changes permitting counsel to retain the reports. Upon the recommendation of our District’s Criminal Law Sub Committee, our judges voted to permit counsel to retain the reports with a requirement that the reports not be re-disclosed. Accordingly, the proposed changes are as follows (new content is underlined in red text, content to be stricken is crossed out in red text):

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