Connecticut General Statutes 52-259a – Exemptions from certain fee requirements
(a) Any member of the Division of Criminal Justice or the Division of Public Defender Services, any employee of the Judicial Department, acting in the performance of such employee’s duties, the Attorney General, an assistant attorney general, the Consumer Counsel, any attorney employed by the Office of Consumer Counsel within the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the Department of Revenue Services, the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the Freedom of Information Commission, the Board of Labor Relations, the Office of the Victim Advocate, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Children and Families or the Office of State Ethics, or any attorney appointed by the court to assist any of them or to act for any of them in a special case or cases, while acting in such attorney’s official capacity or in the capacity for which such attorney was appointed, shall not be required to pay the fees specified in sections 52-258, 52-259, and 52-259c, subsection (a) of § 52-356a, subsection (a) of § 52-361a, § 52-367a, subsection (b) of § 52-367b and subsection (n) of § 46b-231.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 52-259a
- Federal public defender: An attorney employed by the federal courts on a full-time basis to provide legal defense to defendants who are unable to afford counsel. The judiciary administers the federal defender program pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act. Source: U.S. Courts
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
- Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
(b) (1) The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall not be required to pay any fees specified in § 52-259 for any certified copy of any criminal record.
(2) The Office of the Federal Public Defender shall not be required to pay any fees specified in § 52-259 for any certified copy of any criminal record.
(3) An employee of the United States Probation Office, acting in the performance of such employee’s duties, shall not be required to pay any fee specified in § 52-259 for any certified copy of any criminal record.