Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 961a · 23 active provisions
(a) Whenever in any criminal case, on or after October 1, 1969, the accused, by a final judgment, is found not guilty of the charge or the charge is dismissed, all police and court records and records of any state's attorney pertaining to such charge shall be erased upon the expiration of the time to file a writ of err…
Any person who has been found guilty under section 17-379 or any statute predecessor thereto, if she has been convicted of no other offense prior to her twenty-first birthday, may file a petition with the court by which she was found guilty, or, if such finding was by a trial justice or municipal court or the Circuit C…
(a) The clerk of the court or any person charged with retention and control of erased records by the Chief Court Administrator or any criminal justice agency having information contained in such erased records shall not disclose to anyone the existence of such erased records or information pertaining to any charge eras…
Whenever any person has been convicted of an offense in any court in this state and such offense has been decriminalized subsequent to the date of such conviction, such person may file a petition with the Superior Court at the location in which such conviction was effected, or with the Superior Court at the location ha…
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (g) of section 54-142a and section 54-142c, with respect to any person, including, but not limited to, a consumer reporting agency as defined in subsection (i) of section 31-51i, or a background screening provider or similar data-based service or company, that purchases…
(a) There is established a Council on the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record, which shall be part of the Legislative Department. The Council on the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record shall study discrimination faced by people in Connecticut living with a criminal record and develop recommendations f…
For purposes of this part and sections 29-11 and 54-142c, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Criminal history record information” means court records and information compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to each such offender notations of arr…
(a) All criminal justice agencies that collect, store or disseminate criminal history record information shall institute a process of data collection, entry, storage and systematic audit that will minimize the possibility of recording and storing inaccurate criminal history record information, and shall notify, upon th…
All criminal justice agencies which collect, store or disseminate criminal history record information shall: (1) Screen and have the right to reject for employment, based on good cause, all personnel to be authorized to have direct access to criminal history record information; (2) Initiate or cause to be initiated adm…
The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall adopt regulations to establish procedures for criminal justice agencies to query the central repository prior to dissemination of any criminal history disposition information to assure that the most up to date disposition data is being used. Inquiries t…
(a) Each person or agency holding conviction information or nonconviction information shall establish reasonable hours and places of inspection of such information. (b) Each person or agency holding conviction information or nonconviction information shall (1) update such information promptly whenever related criminal…
(a) A person may challenge the completeness and accuracy of such information by giving written notice of his challenge to the State Bureau of Identification and to the agency at which he inspected the information, if other than the State Police Bureau of Identification. The notice shall contain a sworn statement that t…
(a) A criminal justice agency holding nonconviction information may disclose it to persons or agencies not otherwise authorized (1) for the purposes of research, evaluation or statistical analysis, or (2) if there is a specific agreement with a criminal justice agency to provide services required for the administration…
Nonconviction information other than erased information may be disclosed only to: (1) Criminal justice agencies in this and other states and the federal government; (2) agencies and persons which require such information to implement a statute or executive order that expressly refers to criminal conduct; (3) agencies o…
(a) Nonconviction information disseminated to noncriminal justice agencies shall be used by such agencies only for the purpose for which it was given and shall not be redisseminated. (b) No agency or individual shall confirm the existence or nonexistence of nonconviction information to any person or agency that would n…
(a) Any criminal justice agency may furnish criminal history record information or a no criminal record letter to an individual in conjunction with an application to enter the United States or any foreign nation when the subject of the record (1) certified that the information is needed to complete an application to en…
(a) As used in this section, (1) “governing board” means the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board established in this section, (2) “offender-based tracking system” means an information system that enables, as determined by the governing board and subject to this chapter, criminal justice agencies, as def…
(a) Any data in a criminal justice information system, as defined in section 54-142q, shall be available to the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the executive director of a division of or unit within the Judicial Department that oversees information technology, or to such persons' designees, for the purpose…
(a) The Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board shall design and implement a comprehensive, state-wide information technology system to facilitate the immediate, seamless and comprehensive sharing of information between all state agencies, departments, boards and commissions having any cognizance over matte…
(a) The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Judicial Branch and the Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board established pursuant to section 54-142q, shall develop and implement automated processes for erasure pursuant to section 54-142a. Any agency holding record…
(a) Whenever on or after January 1, 2000, but prior to October 1, 2015, any person has been convicted in any court of this state of possession under subsection (c) of section 21a-279, all police and court records and records of the state's or prosecuting attorney pertaining to such a conviction in any court of this sta…
(a)(1) Any person who has been convicted in any court in this state (A) (i) on October 1, 2015, or thereafter, and prior to July 1, 2021, or (ii) prior to January 1, 2000, of a violation of section 21a-279 for possession of a cannabis-type substance and the amount possessed was less than or equal to four ounces of such…
If the automated processes required to be developed under section 54-142t have not marked a police or court record or the record of any state's attorney or prosecuting attorney erased, or no petition has been filed seeking to have such record erased, as of July 1, 2023, the provisions of section 54-142a shall determine…