Connecticut General Statutes 54-142u – Automatic erasure of record of person for certain cannabis possession convictions
(a) Whenever on or after January 1, 2000, but prior to October 1, 2015, any person has been convicted in any court of this state of possession under subsection (c) of § 21a-279, all police and court records and records of the state’s or prosecuting attorney pertaining to such a conviction in any court of this state shall be, pursuant to the provisions of § 54-142a, (1) erased, if such records are electronic records; or (2) deemed erased by operation of law, if such records are not electronic records.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 54-142u
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any police or court records or the records of any state’s attorney or prosecuting attorney with respect to any record referencing more than one count unless and until all counts are entitled to erasure in accordance with the provisions of this section, except that electronic records or portions of electronic records released to the public that reference a charge that would otherwise be entitled to erasure under this section shall be erased in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(c) Nothing in this section shall limit any other procedure for erasure of criminal history record information, as defined in § 54-142g, or prohibit a person from participating in any such procedure, even if such person’s electronic criminal history record information has been erased pursuant to this section.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “electronic record” means any police or court record or record of any state’s attorney or prosecuting attorney that is an electronic record, as defined in § 1-267, other than a scanned copy of a physical document.
(e) For the purposes of this section, “court records” shall not include a record or transcript of the proceedings made or prepared by an official court reporter, court recording monitor or any other entity designated by the Chief Court Administrator.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the partial redaction of physical documents or scanned copies of such documents held internally by any criminal justice agency.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the Department of Motor Vehicles to erase criminal history record information on an operator’s driving record. When applicable, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall make such criminal history record information available through the Commercial Driver’s License Information System.
(h) A person whose records have been erased pursuant to this section may represent to any entity other than a criminal justice agency that they have not been arrested or convicted for the purposes of any such conviction for which such records have been erased.