Title 1 — Title 1: Provisions of General Application

Sec. 1-200. (Formerly Sec. 1-18a). Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings, except where such terms are used in a context which clearly indicates the contrary: (1) “Public agency” or “agency” means: (A) Any executive, admi…

Sec. 1-201. (Formerly Sec. 1-19c). Division of Criminal Justice deemed not to be public agency, when. For the purposes of subdivision (1) of section 1-200, the Division of Criminal Justice shall not be deemed to be a public agency except in respect to its administrative functions…

Sec. 1-202. (Formerly Sec. 1-20e). Application of freedom of information provisions to agency committee composed entirely of individuals who are not members of the agency. Any public agency may petition the Freedom of Information Commission before establishing a committee of the …

Secs. 1-203 and 1-204. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 1-205. (Formerly Sec. 1-21j). Freedom of Information Commission. (a) There shall be established a Freedom of Information Commission consisting of nine members. (1) Five of such members shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of either house of the Gen…

Sec. 1-205a. Recommended appropriations. Allotments. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the appropriations recommended for the Freedom of Information Commission shall be the estimates of expenditure requirements transmitted to the Secretary of the Office o…

Sec. 1-206. (Formerly Sec. 1-21i). Denial of access to public records or meetings. Appeals. Notice. Orders. Civil penalty. Violation that constitutes obstruction or misconduct. Petition for relief from vexatious requester. Service of process upon commission. Frivolous appeals. Ap…

Secs. 1-207 to 1-209. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 1-210. (Formerly Sec. 1-19). Access to public records. Exempt records. (a) Except as otherwise provided by any federal law or state statute, all records maintained or kept on file by any public agency, whether or not such records are required by any law or by any rule or reg…

Sec. 1-211. (Formerly Sec. 1-19a). Disclosure of computer-stored public records. Contracts. Acquisition of system, equipment, software to store or retrieve nonexempt public records. (a) Any public agency which maintains public records in a computer storage system shall provide, t…

Sec. 1-212. (Formerly Sec. 1-15). Copies and scanning of public records. Fees. (a) Any person applying in writing shall receive, promptly upon request, a plain, facsimile, electronic or certified copy of any public record. The type of copy provided shall be within the discretion …

Sec. 1-213. (Formerly Sec. 1-19b). Agency administration. Disclosure of personnel, birth and tax records. Disclosure of voice mails by public agencies. Judicial records and proceedings. (a) The Freedom of Information Act shall be: (1) Construed as requiring each public agency to …

Sec. 1-214. (Formerly Sec. 1-20a). Public employment contracts as public record. Agency response to request for disclosure of personnel or medical files. Objection to disclosure. (a) Any contract of employment to which the state or a political subdivision of the state is a party …

Sec. 1-214a. Disclosure of public agency termination, suspension or separation agreement containing confidentiality provision. Any agreement entered into by any public agency, as defined in section 1-200, with an employee or personal services contractor providing for the terminat…

Sec. 1-215. (Formerly Sec. 1-20b). Record of an arrest as public record. Prohibition on redaction. Exemptions. Disclosure of other law enforcement records. Notice to state's attorney. Applicability of section. (a) For the purposes of this section, “record of the arrest” means (1)…

Sec. 1-215a. Liability for disclosure of law enforcement records. A law enforcement agency that discloses records that may be withheld from disclosure under subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of section 1-210 to another law enforcement agency that is permitted to receive such reco…

Sec. 1-216. (Formerly Sec. 1-20c). Review and destruction of records consisting of uncorroborated allegations of criminal activity. Except for records the retention of which is otherwise controlled by law or regulation, records of law enforcement agencies consisting of uncorrobor…

Sec. 1-217. (Formerly Sec. 1-20f). Nondisclosure of residential addresses of certain individuals. Written request for nondisclosure. Redaction. Exceptions. Liability of public agency, public official or employee for violation. Hearing. Penalty. (a) No public agency may disclose, …

Sec. 1-218. Certain contracts for performance of governmental functions. Records and files subject to Freedom of Information Act. Each contract in excess of two million five hundred thousand dollars between a public agency and a person for the performance of a governmental functi…

Sec. 1-219. Veterans' military records. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force or Space Force of the United States; (2) “veteran” means any person honorably discharged from, or released under honorable conditions…

Secs. 1-220 to 1-224. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 1-225. (Formerly Sec. 1-21). Meetings of government agencies to be public. Recording of votes. Schedule and agenda of certain meetings to be filed and posted on web sites. Notice of special meetings. Executive sessions. (a) The meetings of all public agencies, except executi…

Sec. 1-225a. Meetings of public agencies conducted by electronic equipment. (a) As used in this section, “public agency”, “meeting”, “executive session”, “electronic equipment” and “electronic transmission” have the same meanings as provided in section 1-200. On and after July 1,…

Sec. 1-226. (Formerly Sec. 1-21a). Recording, broadcasting or photographing meetings. (a) At any meeting of a public agency which is open to the public, pursuant to the provisions of section 1-225, proceedings of such public agency may be recorded, photographed, broadcast or reco…

Sec. 1-227. (Formerly Sec. 1-21c). Provision of notice of meetings to persons filing written request. Fees. The public agency shall, where practicable, give notice by mail or electronic transmission of each regular meeting, and of any special meeting which is called, at least one…

Sec. 1-228. (Formerly Sec. 1-21d). Adjournment of meetings. Notice. The public agency may adjourn any regular or special meeting to a time and place specified in the order of adjournment. Less than a quorum may so adjourn from time to time. If all members are absent from any regu…

Sec. 1-229. (Formerly Sec. 1-21e). Continued hearings. Notice. Any hearing being held, or noticed or ordered to be held, by the public agency at any meeting may by order or notice of continuance be continued or recontinued to any subsequent meeting of such agency in the same mann…

Sec. 1-230. (Formerly Sec. 1-21f). Regular meetings to be held pursuant to regulation, ordinance or resolution. The public agency shall provide by regulation, in the case of a state agency, or by ordinance or resolution in the case of an agency of a political subdivision, the pla…

Sec. 1-231. (Formerly Sec. 1-21g). Executive sessions. (a) At an executive session of a public agency, attendance shall be limited to members of said body and persons invited by said body to present testimony or opinion pertinent to matters before said body provided that such per…

Sec. 1-232. (Formerly Sec. 1-21h). Conduct of meetings. In the event that any meeting of a public agency is interrupted by any person or group of persons so as to render the orderly conduct of such meeting unfeasible and order cannot be restored by the removal of individuals who …

Secs. 1-233 to 1-239. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 1-240. (Formerly Sec. 1-21k). Penalties. (a) Any person who wilfully, knowingly and with intent to do so, destroys, mutilates or otherwise disposes of any public record without the approval required under section 1-18 or unless pursuant to chapter 47 or 871, or who alters an…

Sec. 1-241. (Formerly Sec. 1-21l). Injunctive relief from frivolous, unreasonable or harassing freedom of information appeals. A public agency, as defined in subdivision (1) of section 1-200, may bring an action to the Superior Court against any person who was denied leave by the…

Sec. 1-242. Actions involving provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Notice of litigation to the Freedom of Information Commission. Intervention by commission. (a) In any action involving the assertion that a provision of the Freedom of Information Act has been violated or…

Secs. 1-243 to 1-259. Reserved for future use.