2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 29-12. Fingerprinting and physical description of arrested persons.

      Sec. 29-12. Fingerprinting and physical description of arrested persons. All persons arrested for crime as described in section 29-11 shall submit to the taking of their fingerprints and physical description and all constables and chiefs of police of organized police departments and the commanding officers of state police stations shall immediately furnish to the State Police Bureau of Identification two copies of a standard identification card on which shall be imprinted fingerprints of each person so arrested, together with the physical description of, and such information as said bureau may require with respect to, such arrested person. All wardens of correctional institutions and the Community Correctional Center Administrator shall furnish to the State Police Bureau of Identification such information with respect to prisoners as said bureau requires. The Commissioner of Public Safety may adopt regulations for the submission to and the taking of fingerprints as required under this section which will promote efficiency and be consistent with advances in automation and technology.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3654; 1969, P.A. 297; P.A. 76-333, S. 2; P.A. 78-200, S. 4; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 87-282, S. 18; P.A. 00-99, S. 75, 154.)

      History: 1969 act replaced jails with community correctional centers; P.A. 76-333 added word "police" in reference to "state police bureau of identification"; P.A. 78-200 authorized state police commissioner to adopt regulations re fingerprinting; P.A. 78-303 allowed substitution of commissioner of public safety for commissioner of state police in keeping with changes enacted by P.A. 77-614; P.A. 87-282 deleted reference to "superintendents of correctional institutions"; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriffs, effective December 1, 2000.

      Cited. 196 C. 430-432.