Specifications include, but are not limited to: To establish a contract with one individual or company that can provide consulting services for the Public Safety Enhancement Team. The Public Safety Enhancement Team was formed in August 2022, in response to Governor Scott’s Public Safety Enhancement & Violence Reduction 10-Point Action Plan Framework. The Governor has directed relevant state agencies/departments with public safety, social service, substance abuse prevention and treatment and mental health missions to identify and track “hot spots,” repeat offenders and others known to law enforcement and social service providers. The objective is to swiftly deploy needed interventions and/or services and to actively disrupt patterns and prevent interactions with the criminal justice system. In response, the Agency of Human Services (AHS), the Agency of Digital Services (ADS), the Governor’s Violence Prevention Task Force, the Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Agency of Commerce and Community Development and the Department of Labor have been meeting weekly to develop strategies and build a mapping tool. Other State agencies or departments are included as appropriate on an ad hoc basis. PSET’s goal is to reorient policies and improve coordination among programs and systems for better health and safety outcomes. The agencies and departments have been directed to apply the principles of the State’s nationleading Pandemic Response to measure activity and respond in real-time, identify causal factors and take action to prevent crime and better serve Vermont’s most vulnerable.
