The bill, Substitute House Bill No. 5447, introduced as File No. 413, aims to exempt the residential addresses of employees of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bill proposes to amend subsection (a) of section 1-217 of the general statutes, effective October 1, 2024. It adds employees of the OAG to the list of individuals whose residential addresses are not to be disclosed from personnel, medical, or similar files by public agencies. The list already includes various public officials and employees such as judges, law enforcement officers, attorneys representing the state, social workers, firefighters, and others.

The bill also outlines that OAG employees can request confidentiality for their home addresses from other public agencies by following existing procedures, which include submitting a written request with their business address. Public agencies are required to redact the home addresses of OAG employees from records provided in response to FOIA requests that specifically name the individual, and they must make reasonable efforts to redact addresses from lists derived from electronic databases or voluntarily created in response to disclosure requests. However, the prohibition does not apply to home addresses in documents eligible for recording in municipal land records, state election-related lists, or municipal grand lists. The bill has no fiscal impact on the state or municipalities and is set to take effect on October 1, 2024.