(a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, on or before the thirtieth day of June in 2021, and thereafter on or before the first day of May in each year in which the decennial census of the United States is taken and in which the United States Census Bureau counts any incarcerated individual as a resident of the town in which such incarcerated individual's respective correctional facility is located, the Department of Correction shall deliver to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management in such form as the secretary shall prescribe:
(A) A unique identifier for each incarcerated individual subject to the jurisdiction of the department on the date for which the decennial census reports population;
(B) The street address of the correctional facility in which such individual was incarcerated at the time of such report;
(C) The residential or other address of such individual prior to incarceration;
(D) An indication of whether such individual has attained the age of eighteen years;
(E) Such individual's race and whether such individual is of Hispanic or Latino origin, if known; and
(F) Any additional information the secretary may request pursuant to law.
(2) In the case of each incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, the Department of Correction shall not deliver to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management the information described in subparagraph (C) of subdivision (1) of this subsection.
(3) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the information required to be provided under this subsection shall not include the name of any incarcerated individual or in any other way allow for the identification of any such individual from such information. Such information shall be confidential and not otherwise disclosed, except to the secretary for the purposes of subsection (c) of this section, or as aggregated by census block for the purposes of subsection (d) of this section.
(b) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, on or before the thirtieth day of June in 2021, and thereafter on or before the first day of May in each year in which the decennial census of the United States is taken and in which the United States Census Bureau counts any incarcerated individual as a resident of the town in which such incarcerated individual's respective correctional facility is located, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall request each agency that operates a federal correctional facility in this state to provide the secretary with a report including the information listed in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section.
(2) In the case of each incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall not request of any agency that operates a federal correctional facility in this state that such agency provide the secretary with the information described in subparagraph (C) of subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section.
(c) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, for each individual included in a report received under subsection (a) or (b) of this section, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall determine the geographic units for which population counts are reported in the decennial census of the United States, which units contain the address of the facility in which such individual was incarcerated, and such individual's prior residential or other address as listed in such report.
(2) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, for each individual included in a report received under subsection (a) or (b) of this section, if such individual's prior residential or other address is known and in this state, the secretary shall adjust such information to:
(A) Ensure that all relevant population counts reported in the decennial census are as if such individual resided at such address on the date for which the census reports population; and
(B) Ensure that such individual is not represented in any applicable population count reported in the decennial census for the geographic units that include the facility in which such individual was incarcerated on the date for which the census reports population, unless such individual's prior residential or other address is located within the same such geographic units.
(3) Except as provided in subdivision (4) of this subsection, for each individual included in a report received under subsection (a) or (b) of this section whose residential or other address is unknown or not in this state, and for each individual reported in the decennial census as residing in a federal correctional facility for whom a report was not provided, the secretary shall adjust such information to:
(A) Ensure that such individual is not represented in any applicable population count reported in the decennial census for the geographic units that include the facility in which such individual was incarcerated on the date for which the census reports population; and
(B) Ensure that such individual is counted as part of a state unit not tied to a specific geographical location, in the same manner that an individual with an unknown state of residency is counted, including, but not limited to, military and federal government personnel stationed abroad.
(4) For each individual included in a report received under subsection (a) or (b) of this section who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, the secretary shall not adjust such information and shall ensure that such individual is represented in the applicable population count reported in the decennial census for the geographic units that include the facility in which such individual was incarcerated on the date for which the census reports population.
(d) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall prepare and publish such information, both adjusted and unadjusted, pursuant to subsection (c) of this section on or before either the first day of July next following the year in which the decennial census of the United States is taken or the thirtieth day after the publication of the redistricting data for this state by the United States Census Bureau in such year, whichever is later, and such adjusted and unadjusted information shall be the basis for determining state assembly and senatorial districts, as well as municipal voting districts. No residence at an unknown geographical location within the state under subdivision (3) of subsection (c) of this section may be used to determine the average population of any set of districts. The secretary shall notify each municipality that the adjusted and unadjusted information shall be used for the purposes of determining municipal voting districts.
(e) The Department of Correction shall (1) determine the residential or other address of each individual who is committed to the custody of the department as of or after January 1, 2020, and decennially thereafter, and who remains so committed on the date for which the census reports population, and (2) maintain an electronic record of such address. Such record shall contain, at a minimum, the last-known residential or other address of each such individual prior to incarceration.
(P.A. 21-13, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 21-13 effective May 26, 2021.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 9-164. - Regular and special municipal elections.
Section 9-164a. - Transitional terms of office.
Section 9-164b. - Deferred terms.
Section 9-164c. - Change of municipal election date.
Section 9-164d. - Notification to secretary.
Section 9-164e. - Proposed action to be submitted to municipal attorney.
Section 9-164f. - Election of registrars unaffected.
Section 9-167a. - Minority representation.
Section 9-168. - Place of holding elections.
Section 9-168b. - Designation of polling places in adjacent voting districts.
Section 9-168c. - Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters.
Section 9-168e. - Parking spaces at polling places for handicapped and infirm elderly persons.
Section 9-169. - Voting districts.
Section 9-169a. - Split voting districts.
Section 9-169b. - Effective date of changes in voting districts.
Section 9-169c. - At-large election of members of legislative bodies of certain towns.
Section 9-169f. - Reapportionment required for certain municipal legislative bodies.
Section 9-170. - Eligibility to vote at town elections.
Section 9-171. - Eligibility to vote at city elections.
Section 9-172. - Eligibility to vote at state elections.
Section 9-172a. - Revised registry list defined for purposes of special elections.
Section 9-172b. - Updated list and registration deadline for special election or referendum.
Section 9-173. - Plurality required for election.
Section 9-174a. - Emergency contingency plan for elections. Model plan.
Section 9-174b. - Notification re extension of hours of polling place.
Section 9-175. - Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots.
Section 9-176. - Meeting of presidential electors.
Section 9-177. - Compensation of presidential electors.
Section 9-178. - Senator in Congress.
Section 9-179. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-180. - Representative at large.
Section 9-181. - State officers.
Section 9-183. - Justices of the peace.
Section 9-183a. - Number of justices of the peace, exceptions.
Section 9-184. - Vacancy in office of justice of the peace when justice nominated by a major party.
Section 9-185. - Municipal officers.
Section 9-186. - Electoral status of municipal officers and justices of the peace.
Section 9-187a. - Date term to begin.
Section 9-189. - Town clerks, treasurers and tax collectors.
Section 9-189a. - Four-year terms for town clerks, registrars and treasurers.
Section 9-190. - Registrars of voters.
Section 9-190a. - Election of registrars at state elections.
Section 9-190b. - Temporary relief of registrar by Secretary of the State; procedure.
Section 9-190c. - Removal of registrar.
Section 9-191. - Election of registrars for each voting district.
Section 9-192b. - Designation of registrar, deputy or an assistant to receive instruction.
Section 9-193. - Registrar's oath.
Section 9-194. - Compensation of registrars, deputies and assistants.
Section 9-195. - Compensation of registrars and town clerks for duties as to enrollment.
Section 9-199. - Boards of assessment appeals. Alternate and additional members.
Section 9-201. - Election of five-member boards of police commissioners.
Section 9-202. - Board of finance.
Section 9-203. - Number and term of members of boards of education.
Section 9-204. - Minority representation on board of education.
Section 9-204a. - Nomination and voting for full number of board members to be elected authorized.
Section 9-204b. - Optional alternative system for towns with four-year terms for board of education.
Section 9-205. - Election of board of education when number of members revised.
Section 9-206a. - Optional number of members and terms of boards of education.
Section 9-207. - Library directors.
Section 9-208. - Election of library directors on change from annual to biennial election.
Section 9-209. - Certificate filed with secretary when planning or zoning members to be elected.
Section 9-210. - Incompatible town offices.
Section 9-211. - United States senator; vacancy.
Section 9-212. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-213. - Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General.
Section 9-214. - State representative.
Section 9-215. - Member or member-elect of the General Assembly.
Section 9-216. - Nomination by petition.
Section 9-217. - List of candidates.
Section 9-218. - Probate judge.
Section 9-219. - Justice of the peace.
Section 9-221. - Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.
Section 9-223. - Notice of vacancy in municipal office.
Section 9-224. - Special election on same day as regular election.
Section 9-224a. - No election if only one candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-224b. - Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-225. - State elections; exception for certain elections held in 2020 and 2021.
Section 9-226. - Municipal elections; exception for certain elections held in 2021.
Section 9-227. - Record of warning of municipal election.
Section 9-228. - Municipal elections.
Section 9-229b. - Regional election monitors. Contract. Memorandum of understanding.
Section 9-230. - Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder.
Section 9-231. - Oath of election officials.
Section 9-232a. - Remedy for denial of voting rights.
Section 9-232b. - Penalty for false statement.
Section 9-232c. - Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form.
Section 9-232d. - Request for challenged ballot.
Section 9-232e. - Casting of challenged ballot, procedure.
Section 9-232f. - Preservation and counting of challenged ballots.
Section 9-232j. - Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office.
Section 9-232k. - Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots.
Section 9-232l. - Applications for provisional ballots.
Section 9-232m. - Casting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-232o. - Counting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-233. - Voting tabulator tenders.
Section 9-234. - Presence of registrars. Official checkers. Checking of elector's name.
Section 9-235. - Unofficial checkers.
Section 9-235a. - Temporary absence of election officials.
Section 9-235c. - Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials.
Section 9-235e. - Secretary of the State allowed access to polling place.
Section 9-236a. - Spare voting tabulator or ballot box for educational use of students.