VLCT website migration · review packet · issue #151

VLCT’s default is to gate: answer only where you disagree.

Documents linked from both members-only and public pages

19 documents (PDF, Word, Excel) are linked from members-only content and from at least one public page, so for now they stay open to everyone. For each one: should it stay public, or become members-only?

What we need from you

  1. Group A — Make members-only (17 files). Nothing to do if you agree. Otherwise list the row numbers to keep public.
  2. Group B — Keep public (2 files). Nothing to do if you agree. Otherwise list the row numbers to make members-only.

If we don’t hear back by 2026-10-09, we go ahead with each group’s recommendation.

“Members-only” means the file downloads only after sign-in. A public page that links it keeps the link, which shows the lock and asks visitors to sign in. This page shows titles and file names only, never what’s inside the files.

Already fixed in code (75 files)

Our first list had 94 files. These 75 needed no decision from you:

  • 57 handouts from members-only webinars, courses and reports. Each had a public file page split out of its members-only “Recordings and Resources” page. Those file pages are now members-only like the page they came from, and the files download only after sign-in.
  • 14 court opinions and state or federal documents on other websites. They were never VLCT files. Our check mistook links to vermontjudiciary.org, vtcourts.gov, healthvermont.gov and osha.gov for VLCT files and no longer does.
  • 4 files linked only from Q&As on members-only pages. Their “public” link sat inside a Q&A that is only shown on a members-only page. A Q&A now takes the wall of the pages that show it; one that no published page shows follows the page it came from on the old site (735 Q&As are members-only on the migration site). These files are now members-only.

Group A Make members-only 17 files

Recommendation and default: Make members-only. Nothing to do if you agree. Otherwise list the row numbers to keep public.

VLCT templates, forms and guides that a public page also offers 13

Why: VLCT wrote these, and a members-only page, article or course links them. A public page (a toolkit, a step-by-step guide) offers them too. VLCT’s default is to gate.

If approved: The file downloads only after sign-in. Public pages keep their link, which shows the lock and asks visitors to sign in.

Forms from members-only pages, linked once from a public page 3

Why: The file’s home is a members-only page. One public page also links it, as a passing reference rather than as its own content.

If approved: The file downloads only after sign-in. Public pages keep their link, which shows the lock and asks visitors to sign in.

VLCT’s copy of a state form 1

Why: Part of VLCT’s own hiring set. The form itself is the state’s and anyone can get it from DMV, so gating VLCT’s copy hides nothing.

If approved: The file downloads only after sign-in. Public pages keep their link, which shows the lock and asks visitors to sign in.

Group B Keep public 2 files

Recommendation and default: Keep public. Nothing to do if you agree. Otherwise list the row numbers to make members-only.

Federal documents VLCT hosts a copy of 2

Why: Published by FEMA, not VLCT, and public by nature.

If approved: Nothing changes.

#1fema-preliminary-damage-assessment-pda-pocket-guide-2020-pa-only.pdfPDF · 1.3 MB

A FEMA publication, listed under Resources on two public recording pages.

What happens after you answer

  • Make members-only (A): the file moves out of the public folder and downloads only after sign-in. Public pages keep their link, which shows the lock and asks visitors to sign in. No wording changes. Undo: one command moves a file back.
  • Keep public (B): nothing changes.
  • Rows you move between groups: we apply your call to that file only.

Generated 2026-09-27 from the migration site (19 files; script audits/member-files-shared.php + audits/member-files-review.py). Links open the preview site; members-only pages ask you to sign in.