CT SB00368

Department of Correction must deliver incarcerated person data to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management by May 1st following each federal decennial census, including unique identifiers, facility addresses, prior residential addresses, age, and race/ethnicity information.

Information provided must exclude names and any identifying details about incarcerated individuals; data shall remain confidential except for redistricting purposes and may only be shared in aggregated form by census block.

Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall adjust census population counts to attribute incarcerated persons to their last known residential address in Connecticut rather than to the facility location where they were incarcerated.

For incarcerated persons with unknown or out-of-state addresses, they shall be counted as part of a state unit not tied to a specific geographic location, similar to military and federal personnel stationed abroad.

Adjusted population data must be published within 30 days after the Census Bureau releases redistricting data and shall be used as the basis for determining state assembly and senatorial districts, as well as municipal voting districts; effective July 1, 2020.