Text of Bill
JUD Joint Favorable Substitute [doc]
Committee Actions
JUD Joint Fav. Rpt
Bill History - Action Taken
4/29/2025 (LCO) File Number 797
4/29/2025 Senate Calendar Number 416
4/29/2025 Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
4/29/2025 (LCO) Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners’ Office
From the Joint Favorable Report:
REASONS FOR BILL:
This bill aims to clarify that the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) should not be restricted to sharing only offender-based data. CJIS-CT has developed and implemented the Connecticut information sharing system which serves as the referenced criminal justice information system for facilitating the comprehensive sharing of data relevant to the broader criminal justice system in Connecticut. The purpose of this change is to ensure that the criminal justice information system continues to facilitate sharing of data relevant to law enforcement and other stakeholders in the criminal justice system by including non-offender data. With this clarification, this amendment enhances data integration and sharing across agencies, ensuring a more complete and effective information exchange to support law enforcement, criminal justice processes, and decision making. It also seeks to clarify the duties of the Executive Director of the CJIS Governing Board by establishing that the executive director as the primary authority responsible for implementing the board’s policies, and acting under direction of the board.
SUBSTITUTE LANGUAGE:
The substitute language strikes the language in the underlying bill, and adds a single sentence to the first section that summarizes that the former language in terms of what the CJIS board may authorize the Executive Director to do, and adds a new subsection in the second section regarding what is included in the “information technology system.”
Commentary: One of the language additions this bill contains is the following addition to Section 54-142s.
(d) Such information technology system may additionally include any other relevant information collected, managed or maintained by a criminal justice agency, as defined in section 54-142g, or another entity having cognizance over matters relating to law enforcement, criminal justice and public safety. Such information technology system is intended to integrate and share public safety data and shall not be restricted to offender-based data.