General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 1092
January Session, 2011 *_____SB01092JUD___031411____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 1092
January Session, 2011
*_____SB01092JUD___031411____*
AN ACT CONCERNING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE DNA DATA BANK OVERSIGHT PANEL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 54-102m of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
(a) There is established a DNA Data Bank Oversight Panel composed of the Chief State's Attorney, the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Public Safety, the Commissioner of Correction, [and] the executive director of the Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Department and the Chief Public Defender, or their designees. The Chief State's Attorney shall serve as chairperson of the panel and shall coordinate the agencies responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the DNA data bank established pursuant to section 54-102j.
(b) The panel shall take such action as necessary to assure the integrity of the data bank including the destruction of inappropriately obtained samples and the purging of all records and identifiable information pertaining to the persons from whom such inappropriately obtained samples were collected.
(c) The panel shall meet on a quarterly basis and shall maintain records of its meetings. Such records shall be retained by the chairperson. The meetings and records of the panel shall be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200, except that discussions and records of personally identifiable DNA information contained in the data bank shall be confidential and not subject to disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. The Chief Public Defender, or the Chief Public Defender's designee, shall not participate in discussions concerning, or have access to records of, personally identifiable DNA information contained in the data bank.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 54-102m
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
54-102m
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