Union: Vermont Slow to Improve Workplace Safety
Source: ABC News-AP
By LISA RATHKE,
A year after a Vermont social worker was shot and killed outside a state office building, the state says it's making security enhancements to buildings, but the employees' union says Vermont hasn't moved quickly enough to protect workers from violence.
Police said Lara Sobel was shot as she was leaving work in Barre on Aug. 7, 2015 by a woman upset over losing custody of her 9-year-old daughter. Jody Herring has pleaded not guilty to killing Sobel and three of her own relatives. She is in jail awaiting trial.
On Wednesday, police were looking for Herring's 21-year-old daughter who they said was missing after being released from prison last week. State officials planned to increase security at some offices as a precaution.
Since the shootings last year, the state has assessed 14 major office facilities housing Agency of Human Services staff and then developed security priorities, Administration Secretary Justin Johnson said Monday.
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It has been pointed out there are some inherent safety problems which need to be addressed every day since August 7, last year, and one year later without adequate change is a direct threat to these government workers. They have been shown that it's just much easier for the state government to hire replacements when the original ones get bumped off.
Something has to be done to get their worthless attention.
Now the daughter is missing. I doubt she's going to stay missing. Sounds as if she might intend to return in a notable way. I remember what her mother said:
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The mother's story:
August 21, 2015, 3:45 PM
Vermont woman accused of killing social worker, charged with 3 more murders
BARRE, Vt. -- A Vermont woman accused of killing a social worker because she was upset about losing custody of her 9-year-old daughter has been charged with gunning down three relatives hours before.
Jody Herring's ex-boyfriend told police that she kept a handwritten "hit list," and prosecutors on Thursday charged her with killing three of the people on it: two cousins and an aunt. The former boyfriend also told police that Herring had made comments about how "people are going to pay" and "there's going to be an Armageddon" regarding visitation rights to see her daughter.
Herring has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting Department for Children and Families employee Lara Sobel as she exited a state office building in Barre on Aug. 7. Her lawyer David Sleigh said she will plead not guilty when she is arraigned Tuesday on the three new murder counts.
Herring had tried to buy guns at stores in Barre and Randolph in March but was denied because she couldn't pass a background check, authorities said.
More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vermont-woman-accused-of-killing-social-worker-charged-with-3-more-murders/
