HB 5378 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE NONDISCLOSURE OF THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

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AN ACT CONCERNING THE NONDISCLOSURE OF THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

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459 The following Fiscal Impact Statement and Bill Analysis are prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for purposes of information, summarization and explanation and do not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose.

In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge.

Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.

OFA Fiscal Note State Impact:

None Municipal Impact:

None Explanation This bill, which adds employees of the Office of the Attorney General to the list of individuals covered by the Freedom of Information Act's limitation on disclosing the covered individuals' home addresses, has no fiscal impact.

The Out Years State Impact:

None Municipal Impact:

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459 OLR Bill Analysis HB 5378 AN ACT CONCERNING THE NONDISCLOSURE OF THE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

SUMMARY This bill adds Office of the Attorney General (OAG) employees to the list of individuals covered by the Freedom of Information Act’s (FOIA) limitationondisclosinghomeaddresses(see BACKGROUND).Indoing so, it prohibits OAG from disclosing its employees’ home addresses from the office’s personnel, medical, or similar files.

The bill also allows OAG employees to request address confidentiality from other public agencies (and from OAG with respect to records besides those described above).

To do so, OAG employees must follow existing law’s procedures for other covered individuals, including submitting a written request to the agency and providing it with his or her business address.

An agency that receives a FOIA request concerning an OAG employee who requested address confidentiality must redact the employee's home address only from records provided in response to a request that specifically namesthecoveredindividual.Additionally,the agency must make reasonable efforts to redact their addresses from (1) an existing list derived from a readily accessible electronic database and (2) any list that the agency voluntarily creates in response to a request for disclosure.

The law permits disclosure of a covered individual’s residential address in any other type of record (other than OAG’s personnel, medical, or similar files, as described above).

As under existing law for other covered individuals, the disclosure prohibition also does not apply to home addresses of OAG employees contained in (1) documents eligible to be recorded in municipal land records;

(2) any list required by the state’s election laws (e.g., voter HB5378 / File No.

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459 registry lists, petition forms, logs of absentee ballot applications);

or (3) municipal grand lists.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

October 1, 2022 BACKGROUND Covered Individuals The following public officials and employees are covered by FOIA’s home address disclosure limitation:

1.

federal court judges and magistrates;

2.

Connecticut Superior and Appellate Court judges, Supreme Court justices, and family support magistrates;

3.

sworn members of municipal police departments or the State Police and sworn law enforcement officers in the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection;