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Listening Device Found in Town Planner’s Office

CHARLOTTE (AP) – Officials in the Vermont
town of Charlotte say they found listening devices in the Town Hall
that would have allowed someone to eavesdrop on both public and
private town business sessions.

Town Planner and
Selectboard assistant Dean Bloch says the bugs were discovered in
October during a retrofit of a dropped ceiling.

Shelburne Police, who serve Charlotte, say the devices weren’t
working and they could have been up to 10 years old.

Officer Chris Morrell said that the spying
device were “primitive.” He says the two microphones were connected
to battery-powered, wireless transmitters that might have carried a
signal into the parking lot.