CT SB00753

Department of Correction must report incarcerated individuals' data to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management by June 30, 2021, and before May 1 in each decennial census year, including unique identifiers, facility addresses, prior residential addresses, age, and race/ethnicity information.

Secretary shall adjust census population counts to attribute incarcerated individuals to their prior residential addresses within Connecticut rather than to the correctional facility locations, unless the prior address is unknown or outside the state.

Individuals with unknown or out-of-state prior addresses are counted as part of a state unit not tied to a specific geographic location, similar to military and federal personnel stationed abroad.

Adjusted and unadjusted population information must be published by July 1 following the decennial census year or 30 days after Census Bureau redistricting data release, whichever is later, and shall be used for determining state legislative and municipal voting districts.

Life sentences without possibility of release are excluded from address adjustment; these individuals remain counted at their incarceration facility location for redistricting purposes.