Connecticut HB 6912: AN ACT CONCERNING NONDISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION REGARDING AND CONDUCT TOWARD CERTAIN ELECTION WORKERS.

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6912
January Session, 2023 LCO No. 6043

Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS

Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING NONDISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
REGARDING AND CONDUCT TOWARD CERTAIN ELECTION
WORKERS.
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 Section 1-217 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1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 July 1, 2023): 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. 29
(b) The business address of any person described in this section shall 30
be subject to disclosure under section 1-210. The provisions of this 31
section shall not apply to Department of Motor Vehicles records 32
described in section 14-10. 33
(c) (1) Except as provided in subsections (a) and [(d)] (e) of this 34
section, no public agency may disclose the residential address of any 35
person listed in subsection (a) of this section from any record described 36
in subdivision (2) of this subsection that is requested in accordance with 37
the provisions of said subdivision, regardless of whether such person is 38
an employee of the public agency, provided such person has (A) 39

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submitted a written request for the nondisclosure of the person's 40
residential address to the public agency, and (B) furnished his or her 41
business address to the public agency. 42
(2) Any public agency that receives a request for a record subject to 43
disclosure under this chapter where such request (A) specifically names 44
a person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 45
under subdivision (1) of this subsection, shall make a copy of the record 46
requested to be disclosed and shall redact the copy to remove such 47
person's residential address prior to disclosing such record, (B) is for an 48
existing list that is derived from a readily accessible electronic database, 49
shall make a reasonable effort to redact the residential address of any 50
person who has requested that his or her address be kept confidential 51
under subdivision (1) of this subsection prior to the release of such list, 52
or (C) is for any list that the public agency voluntarily creates in 53
response to a request for disclosure, shall make a reasonable effort to 54
redact the residential address of any person who has requested that his 55
or her address be kept confidential under subdivision (1) of this 56
subsection prior to the release of such list. 57
(3) Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, an agency shall 58
not be prohibited from disclosing the residential address of any person 59
listed in subsection (a) of this section from any record other than the 60
records described in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive, of subdivision 61
(2) of this subsection. 62
(d) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (e) of this section, no 63
public agency of a municipality may disclose, under the Freedom of 64
Information Act, from a public record, including any record described 65
in subdivision (2) of subsection (c) of this section, the residential address 66
of any person who is a municipal clerk, registrar of voters, deputy 67
registrar of voters, election official described in section 9-258, primary 68
official described in 9-436 or audit official described in section 9-320f, 69
regardless of whether such p