2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 54-142k. Inspection of criminal history records; to whom available.

      Sec. 54-142k. Inspection of criminal history records; to whom available. (a) Each person or agency holding criminal history record information shall establish reasonable hours and places of inspection of such information.

      (b) Conviction information shall be available to the public for any purpose.

      (c) Any person shall, upon satisfactory proof of his identity, be entitled to inspect, for purposes of verification and correction, any nonconviction information relating to him and upon his request shall be given a computer printout or photocopy of such information for which a reasonable fee may be charged provided that no erased record may be released except as provided in subsection (f) of section 54-142a. Before releasing any exact reproductions of nonconviction information to the subject, the agency holding such information may remove all personal identifying information from it.

      (d) Any person may authorize in writing an agency holding nonconviction information pertaining directly to such person to disclose such information to his attorney-at-law. The holding agency shall permit such attorney to inspect and obtain a copy of such information if both his identity and that of his client are satisfactorily established; provided no erased record may be released unless such attorney attests to his client's intention to challenge the accuracy of such record.

      (e) Any person who obtains criminal history record information other than conviction information by falsely representing to be the subject of the information shall be guilty of a class D felony.

      (P.A. 78-200, S. 10; P.A. 79-631, S. 12, 111; P.A. 80-218; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 78, 82; P.A. 85-604; P.A. 89-28; P.A. 90-104; P.A. 92-134, S. 2; 92-262, S. 16, 42; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-117, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 79-631 substituted reference to Sec. 54-142a(f) for reference to Sec. 54-90(j) in Subsec. (c); P.A. 80-218 added Subsec. (f) re disclosure of criminal conviction information to department of children and youth services or other youth service agencies; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29 added Subsec. (g) re disclosure of criminal conviction record information to the department of mental retardation and confidentiality of such information; P.A. 85-604 added Subsecs. (h) and (i) re disclosure of criminal conviction information to the departments of human resources and health services and confidentiality of such information; P.A. 89-28 added Subsec. (j) re disclosure of criminal conviction information to family division of superior court and confidentiality of such information; P.A. 90-104 added Subsec. (k) concerning access to records by the department of mental health; P.A. 92-134 added Subsec. (l) re disclosure of criminal conviction information to the attorney general or an attorney representing a party in any juvenile matter and confidentiality of such information; P.A. 92-262 added Subsec.(m) concerning the department of education's right to criminal conviction records of applicants for certification and persons certified under Sec. 10-145b; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-117 amended Subsec. (b) to provide that conviction information shall be available to public for any purpose, amended Subsec. (e) by adding phrase "other than conviction information" and changed "record" to "information" and deleted Subsecs. (f) to (m), inclusive, re access of various agencies to criminal conviction records of certain people.

      Subsec. (a):

      Cited. 36 CS 89, 90.

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 36 CS 89, 90.

      Subsec. (c):

      Cited. 183 C. 183, 185.

      Subsec. (d):

      Cited. 183 C. 183, 185.