Title 54 — Title 54: Criminal Procedure

Sec. 54-215. Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. (a) The Office of Victim Services shall establish a Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund for the purpose of funding the compensation services provided for by sections 54-201 to 54-218, inclusive. The fund may contain any moneys req…

Sec. 54-216. Payment for services. (a) The Office of Victim Services or, on review, a victim compensation commissioner may order payment for services to any person determined to be eligible for such services in accordance with the provisions of sections 54-201 to 54-218, inclusiv…

Sec. 54-217. Expedited processing of a claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 54-204 and 54-205, if based upon a review of all information available, the Office of Victim Services determines that a claim is one with respect to which undue hardship will result to the cl…

Sec. 54-218. Profits derived as result of crime of violence. Recovery of money judgment by victim. Payment to Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund. (a) Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity contracting with any person or the representative o…

Sec. 54-219. Victim Services Technical Assistance Fund. Section 54-219 is repealed. (P.A. 85-609, S. 3; P.A. 88-185, S. 1, 2; P.A. 92-153, S. 13.)

Sec. 54-220. Victim advocates. Responsibilities and duties. Access to police reports. (a) Victim advocates shall have the following responsibilities and duties: (1) To provide initial screening of each personal injury case; (2) to assist victims in the preparation of victim impac…

Sec. 54-220a. Assignment of victim advocates to assist victims before Board of Pardons and Paroles. The Office of Victim Services shall assign two victim advocates to provide full-time assistance to victims who appear before a panel of the Board of Pardons and Paroles or submit a…

Sec. 54-221. Appointment of advocates for victims of crime by court. Section 54-221 is repealed, effective October 1, 2010. (P.A. 85-538, S. 2; P.A. 10-43, S. 43.)

Sec. 54-222. Brochure re rights of victims and victim services. Notice concerning services for victims of human trafficking. (a) The Office of the Chief Court Administrator shall develop a concise card or brochure concerning information to victims of crime concerning their rights…

Sec. 54-222a. Duty of peace officer regarding crime victim. Regulations. (a) Whenever a peace officer determines that a crime has been committed, such officer shall: (1) Render immediate assistance to any crime victim, including obtaining medical assistance for any such crime vic…

Sec. 54-223. Failure to afford rights to victim shall not constitute grounds for vacating conviction or voiding sentence or parole determination. Failure to afford the victim of a crime any of the rights provided pursuant to any provision of the general statutes shall not constit…

Sec. 54-224. Liability of state re failure to afford rights to victim. Except as provided in subsection (f) of section 46b-38b, the state or any agent, employee or officer thereof shall not be liable for (1) the failure to afford the victim of a crime any of the rights provided p…

Sec. 54-225. Voluntary program for lawyers for protection of persons injured in person or property by civil wrong. Section 54-225 is repealed, effective October 1, 2017. (P.A. 87-514, S. 2, 4; P.A. 17-99, S. 51.)

Sec. 54-226. Definitions. For the purposes of sections 54-226 to 54-231, inclusive, “furlough” means the temporary custodial transfer of an inmate from incarcerative custody to community custody for an authorized purpose under the supervision of a verified community sponsor, and …

Sec. 54-227. Notification of Office of Victim Services and Victim Services Unit within Department of Correction by inmate or sexual offender seeking release or other relief. (a) Any inmate who makes an application to the Board of Pardons and Paroles or the Department of Correctio…

Sec. 54-227a. Transferred to Chapter 886, Sec. 51-286g.

Sec. 54-228. Request by victim, immediate family member of victim or family member of inmate for notification. (a) Any victim of a crime, any member of the immediate family of such victim or any member of an inmate's immediate family who desires to be notified whenever an inmate …

Sec. 54-229. Request by prosecuting authority for notification. Any state's attorney, assistant state's attorney or deputy assistant state's attorney who desires to be notified whenever an inmate makes an application to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Department of Correction, …

Sec. 54-230. Notification of victims and other persons by Office of Victim Services when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief or is released from a correctional institution. (a) Upon receipt of notice from an inmate pursuant to section 54-227, the Office of Vic…

Sec. 54-230a. Notification of victims and other persons by Department of Correction when inmate or sexual offender seeks release or other relief. (a) Upon receipt of notice from an inmate pursuant to section 54-227, the Victim Services Unit within the Department of Correction sha…

Sec. 54-231. Notification of Office of Victim Services by Department of Correction upon release of inmate. Access to criminal history record information. The Department of Correction shall notify the Office of Victim Services whenever the department schedules the release of an in…

Sec. 54-232. Disposition of requests for notification received prior to April 1, 1992. Section 54-232 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993. (P.A. 91-389, S. 11; P.A. 93-310, S. 31, 32.)

Sec. 54-233. Compensation of victim of tort occurring prior to July 1, 1993. Section 54-233 is repealed, effective October 1, 2017. (P.A. 93-310, S. 29, 32; P.A. 17-99, S. 51.)

Sec. 54-234. Development of response system for victims of offense of trafficking in persons. Contracts. (a) The Office of Victim Services within the Judicial Department shall, within available appropriations, contract with nongovernmental organizations to develop a coordinated r…

Sec. 54-234a. Display of notice re services for victims of human trafficking at certain public and private establishments and businesses. Penalty. (a)(1) The operator of any (A) establishment that provides massage services for a fee; (B) publicly or privately operated highway ser…

Sec. 54-235. State-wide automated victim information and notification system. The Judicial Branch shall contract for the establishment and implementation of a state-wide automated victim information and notification system to provide automatic notice of relevant offender informat…

Secs. 54-236 to 54-239. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 54-240. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Address confidentiality program” or “program” means the program established pursuant to this chapter; (2) “Agency” has the same meaning as “public agency” or “agency”, as provided in section 1-200; (3) “Application assistant…

Sec. 54-240a. Program purpose. Regulations. (a) There shall be an address confidentiality program established in the office of the Secretary of the State to provide a substitute mailing address for any person who wishes to keep such person's residential address confidential becau…

Sec. 54-240b. Application for program participation. Application assistants. (a) An adult person, a guardian or conservator of the person acting on behalf of an adult person, or a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor may apply to the Secretary of the State for participa…

Sec. 54-240c. Certification as program participant. Application requirements. The Secretary of the State shall certify an applicant or the person on whose behalf an application is made as a program participant if the application is filed in the manner and on the application form …

Sec. 54-240d. Certification card. Upon certification of an applicant or a person on whose behalf an application is made as a program participant pursuant to section 54-240c, the Secretary of the State shall issue a certification card to such applicant or person, as appropriate. T…

Sec. 54-240e. Program address. Forwarding of mail. (a) The Secretary of the State shall maintain a post office box for the exclusive use of the program. The post office box number and a fictitious street address shall be the program address for program participants. (b) The Secre…

Sec. 54-240f. Confidentiality of marriage records. A program participant may request that the participant's marriage records be kept confidential by appearing in person with the participant's spouse or intended spouse before the authorized personnel for the office of the registra…

Sec. 54-240g. Listing on voter registry list. A program participant may request to be listed on a voter registry list without the participant's street and house number by presenting the participant's certification card to the authorized personnel for the office of the registrar o…

Sec. 54-240h. Agency use of program address. (a) A program participant may request that an agency use the program address as the participant's residential, work or school address for all purposes for which the agency requires or requests such residential, work or school address. …

Sec. 54-240i. Exemption from use of program address by agency. (a) An agency may request an exemption from the use of a program participant's program address pursuant to section 54-240h by providing, in writing, to the Secretary of the State: (1) Identification of the statute or …

Sec. 54-240j. Renewal of program certification. (a) A program participant, a guardian or conservator of the person acting on behalf of an adult program participant, or a parent or guardian acting on behalf of a minor program participant may apply to renew the participant's progra…

Sec. 54-240k. Cancellation of program certification. Notice. Reapplication to program. Withdrawal from program. (a) The Secretary of the State may cancel a program participant's certification and invalidate the participant's certification card if: (1) The program participant chan…

Sec. 54-240l. Secretary of the State as agent for program participant. Service on program participant. (a) The Secretary of the State shall be a program participant's agent upon whom any summons, writ, notice, demand or process in any action, proceeding or other matter involving …

Sec. 54-240m. Confidentiality of records re program participant. Exceptions. Notice of disclosure. (a) The Secretary of the State may not make any records in a program participant's file, other than the program address, available for inspection or copying, except: (1) If requeste…

Sec. 54-240n. Nondisclosure of confidential address in criminal or civil proceeding. No employee of any law enforcement agency or any state or municipal social service agency, and no other witness, shall be compelled to disclose a program participant's confidential address during…

Sec. 54-240o. Custody or visitation order in effect prior to or during participation in program. No custody or visitation order in effect prior to or during a person's participation in the address confidentiality program shall be affected by such participation or by any provision…

Secs. 54-241 to 54-249. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 54-250. Definitions. For the purposes of sections 54-102g and 54-250 to 54-258a, inclusive: (1) “Conviction” means a judgment entered by a court upon a plea of guilty, a plea of nolo contendere or a finding of guilty by a jury or the court notwithstanding any pending appeal …

Sec. 54-251. Registration of person who has committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor or a nonviolent sexual offense. (a) Any person who has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of a criminal offense against a victim who is a…

Sec. 54-252. Registration of person who has committed a sexually violent offense. (a) Any person who has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of a sexually violent offense, and (1) is released into the community on or after October 1, 1988, and…

Sec. 54-253. Registration of person who has committed a sexual offense in another jurisdiction. (a) Any person who has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in any other state, in a federal or military court or in any foreign jurisdiction of any…

Sec. 54-254. Registration of person who has committed a felony for a sexual purpose. (a) Any person who has been convicted or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in this state on or after October 1, 1998, of any felony that the court finds was committed for a s…

Sec. 54-255. Restriction on dissemination of registration information for certain offenders. (a) Upon the conviction or finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of any person for a violation of section 53a-70b of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised …