Connecticut SB 492: AN ACT CONCERNING SECURITY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES.

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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 492
February Session, 2026

AN ACT CONCERNING SECURITY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND
EMPLOYEES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 1-217 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2026): 2
(a) No public agency may disclose, under the Freedom of Information 3
Act, from its personnel, medical or similar files, the residential address 4
of any of the following persons: [employed by such public agency:] 5
(1) A federal court judge, federal court magistrate, judge of the 6
Superior Court, Appellate Court or Supreme Court of the state, or 7
family support magistrate; 8
(2) A sworn member of a municipal police department, a sworn 9
member of the Division of State Police within the Department of 10
Emergency Services and Public Protection or a sworn law enforcement 11
officer within the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; 12
(3) An employee of the Department of Correction; 13
(4) An attorney-at-law who represents or has represented the state in 14
a criminal prosecution; 15
(5) An attorney-at-law who is or has been employed by the Division 16

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of Public Defender Services or a social worker who is employed by the 17
Division of Public Defender Services; 18
(6) An inspector employed by the Division of Criminal Justice; 19
(7) A firefighter; 20
(8) An employee of the Department of Children and Families; 21
(9) A member or employee of the Board of Pardons and Paroles; 22
(10) An employee of the judicial branch; 23
(11) An employee of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction 24
Services who provides direct care to patients; 25
(12) A member or employee of the Commission on Human Rights 26
and Opportunities; [or] 27
(13) A state marshal appointed by the State Marshal Commission 28
pursuant to section 6-38b; 29
(14) A state-wide elected officer or officer-elect; 30
(15) A member or member-elect of the General Assembly; 31
(16) A person appointed to any office of the legislative, judicial or 32
executive branch of state government by the Governor or an appointee 33
of the Governor, with or without the advice and consent of the General 34
Assembly; 35
(17) A judge of probate; 36
(18) A chief elected official or executive officer of a municipality; 37
(19) A member of a representative town meeting, board of selectmen, 38
council, board of directors, board of aldermen or board of burgesses of 39
a municipality; 40
(20) A member of a local or regional board of education; or 41

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(21) Any other employee of a public agency, except any person 42
described in subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of this section. 43
(b) The business address of any person described in this section, and 44
the address of each town hall, city hall or other municipal building in 45
which the office of the registrars of voters of a municipality is located, 46
shall be subject to disclosure under section 1-210. The provisions of this 47
section shall not apply to Department of Motor Vehicles records 48
described in section 14-10. 49
(c) (1) Except as provided in subsections (a), (b) and (e) of this section, 50
no public agency may disclose the residential address of any person 51
listed in subsection (a) of this section from any record described in 52
subdivision (2) of this subsection that is requested in accordance with 53
the provisions of said subdivision, regardless of whether such person is 54
an employee of the public agency, provided such person has (A) 55
submitted a written request for the nondisclosure of the person's 56
residential address to the public agency, and (B) furnished his or her 57
business address to the public agency. 58
(2) Any public agency that receives a request for a record subject to 59
disclosure under this chapter where such request (A) specifically names 60
a person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 61
under subdivision (1) of this subsection, shall make a copy of the record 62
requested to be disclosed and shall redact the copy to remove such 63
person's residential address prior to disclosing such record, (B) is for an 64
existing list that is derived from a readily accessible electronic database, 65
shall make a reasonable effort to redact the residential address of any 66
person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 67
under subdivision (1) of this subsection prior to the release of such list, 68
or (C) is for any list that the public agency voluntarily creates in 69
response to a request for disclosure, shall make a reasonable effort to 70
redact the residential address of any person who has requested that his 71
or her address be kept confidential under subdivision (1) of this 72
subsection prior to the release of such list. 73

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(3) Except as provided in s