Connecticut HB 5548: AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEE RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES AND CERTAIN HIGHER EDUCATION RECORDS.

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5548
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 2323

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS

Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEE RESIDENTIAL
ADDRESSES AND CERTAIN HIGHER EDUCATION RECORDS.
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 Section 1-217 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1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

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(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
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; or 29
(14) Any other employee of a public agency, except when residency 30
is a condition or term of such person's employment. 31
(b) The business address of any person described in this section, and 32
the address of each town hall, city hall or other municipal building in 33
which the office of the registrars of voters of a municipality is located, 34
shall be subject to disclosure under section 1-210, as amended by this 35
act. The provisions of this section shall not apply to Department of 36
Motor Vehicles records described in section 14-10. 37
(c) (1) Except as provided in subsections (a), (b) and (e) of this section, 38

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no public agency may disclose the residential address of any person 39
listed in subsection (a) of this section from any record described in 40
subdivision (2) of this subsection that is requested in accordance with 41
the provisions of said subdivision, regardless of whether such person is 42
an employee of the public agency, provided such person has (A) 43
submitted a written request for the nondisclosure of the person's 44
residential address to the public agency, and (B) furnished his or her 45
business address to the public agency. 46
(2) Any public agency that receives a request for a record subject to 47
disclosure under this chapter where such request (A) specifically names 48
a person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 49
under subdivision (1) of this subsection, shall make a copy of the record 50
requested to be disclosed and shall redact the copy to remove such 51
person's residential address prior to disclosing such record, (B) is for an 52
existing list that is derived from a readily accessible electronic database, 53
shall make a reasonable effort to redact the residential address of any 54
person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 55
under subdivision (1) of this subsection prior to the release of such list, 56
or (C) is for any list that the public agency voluntarily creates in 57
response to a request for disclosure, shall make a reasonable effort to 58
redact the residential address of any person who has requested that his 59
or her address be kept confidential under subdivision (1) of this 60
subsection prior to the release of such list. 61
(3) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, an agency shall 62
not be prohibited from disclosing the residential address of any person 63
listed in subsection (a) of this section from any record other than the 64
records described in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive, of subdivision 65
(2) of this subsection. 66
(d) (1) Except as provided in subsections (a), (b) and (e) of this section 67
and subject to the provisions of subdivisions (2) and (3) of this 68
subsection, no public agency of a municipality may disclose,