2011 Connecticut Code
Title 54 Criminal Procedure
Chapter 961 Trial and Proceedings After Conviction
Sec. 54-102l. Expungement of DNA data bank records and destruction of samples.

      Sec. 54-102l. Expungement of DNA data bank records and destruction of samples. A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to sections 54-102g to 54-102k, inclusive, may request expungement on the grounds that the criminal conviction or the finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on which the authority for including the person's DNA profile was based has been reversed and the case dismissed. The State Police Forensic Science Laboratory shall purge all records and identifiable information in the data bank pertaining to the person and destroy all samples from the person upon receipt of (1) a written request for expungement pursuant to this section, and (2) a certified copy of the court order reversing and dismissing the conviction or the finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.

      (P.A. 94-246, S. 6; P.A. 10-36, S. 28.)

      History: P.A. 10-36 made provisions applicable upon reversal of finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2010.