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Weathersfield

Town in Windsor County, 2,856 people.

Police

Sheriff in its county: Windsor County Sheriff's Office.

A department or FBI code is the place's own when its name is the place's and its FBI population fits the place's people (decisions city-or-town-is-its-police-department, left-out-code-is-its-place). Agencies: FBI NIBRS master file 2025 batch headers; names from the FBI agency list, pulled 2026-09-29.

Where it sits

People
2,856
Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024

How a case moves here

Weathersfield follows Vermont law on arrests, release, and courts; the full set covers prosecutors, defense, and jails too.

Who decides release first

After an arrest, the officer must call a judicial officer, a Superior Court judge or a court clerk, to set temporary release. For charges carrying less than two years, a person the Court Administrator designates may also set bail.

13 V.S.A. 7554(f) and 7559a
Time to see a judge

The rules say an arrested person must be brought before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay, and set no hour limit. The U.S. Supreme Court's 48-hour rule for a probable cause finding applies as the federal floor.

V.R.Cr.P. 3(k)
Money bail

Money bail is allowed. Since 2018, a court may not set bail at first appearance for a cited misdemeanor, and may set at most $200 for a misdemeanor eligible for expungement.

13 V.S.A. 7551(b)

Read from the statutes and court rules cited, 2026-09-30. The state constitution says state's attorney districts are set by law; that each county is one district was not read in the statute. Whether clerks or designees who set bail must be lawyers was not confirmed.

Crime

Offenses reported by Weathersfield Police Department, Weathersfield's own department. The county sheriff and state police may answer calls here too; their offenses are on their own pages.

The crime index

Crime index offenses reported by Weathersfield Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kVermont
Violent crime851Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.214
MurderToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.2.6
Rape64Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.39
RobberyToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.13
Aggravated assault211Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.159
Property crime31949Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,598
Burglary5Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.142
Larceny25748Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.1,380
Motor vehicle theft121Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.76
ArsonToo few for a rate: the count is under 20.6.8

Outside the crime index

Offenses outside the crime index reported by Weathersfield Police Department, 2021 to 2025
Offense20212022202320242025Per 100kVermont
All offenses outside the crime index2319131345081,410
Simple assault and intimidation73133Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.423
Vandalism3113Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.429
Fraud1111Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.215
Drug abuse violations111052Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.187
Weapons: carrying, possessing, etc.11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.17
Stolen property: buying, receiving, possessing11Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.39
Forgery and counterfeiting2Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.37
Sex offenses (except rape and prostitution)3Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.13
Other Group A offenses2121Too few for a rate: the count is under 20.39

Offenses Weathersfield Police Department reported to the FBI in incident detail (NIBRS), each year, the second table by the arrest class each offense falls in. Per 100k: offenses per 100,000 people the department polices, 2021 to 2025 added together, beside Vermont's rate over the same years. – means too few for a rate: the count is under 20.

Source: FBI NIBRS national master files, each agency's offenses and the FBI's population for it. Vermont: the crime index: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CrimeDB's chosen value per year (the state page's figures); outside it: FBI NIBRS, agencies that sent incident detail.