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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut protects public school employee home addresses from public records requests and establishes an artificial intelligence task force
Last action · April 23, 2026: House Calendar Number 496Sponsors: Geraldo Reyes and 13 others
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What This Bill Proposed
To prohibit disclosure of the residential address of public school teachers under the Freedom of Information Act and to establish a task force to study how to respond to the issue of mass requests created by artificial intelligence.
School employees gain the right to keep their home addresses confidential from public records requests, aligning their privacy protections with those already granted to police officers, firefighters, and judges.
- Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act governs public access to records and meetings of state and local public agencies. context
- Existing state statute already protects the residential addresses of several classes of public servants, such as judges, police officers, and firefighters, from disclosure under public records laws. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
School employees
Public school employees become eligible to request that their residential addresses be withheld from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
Public agencies
Public agencies are barred from disclosing school employee residential addresses from personnel, medical, or similar files and must handle confidentiality requests.
Key Facts
- Public agencies are prohibited from disclosing the residential addresses of school employees from personnel, medical, or similar files under the Freedom of Information Act, effective October 1, 2026.
- School employees include teachers, substitute teachers, administrators, superintendents, counselors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, physicians, paraeducators, and coaches, as well as contractors who have regular contact with students.
- A task force is established upon passage to study the use of artificial intelligence to generate mass Freedom of Information Act requests.
- The task force consists of four ex officio members or their designees and eight appointed members representing municipalities, open government, legal practice, journalism, artificial intelligence, teachers' unions, and small towns.
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- Initial appointments to the task force must be made within 30 days of the bill's passage, and the first meeting must be held within 60 days.
- The task force must submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Government Oversight Committee by January 1, 2027, after which the task force terminates.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the Senate · on the House floor.
Procedural history
12 actions- Apr 23, 2026HouseHouse Calendar Number 496
- Apr 23, 2026HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
- Apr 22, 2026SenateFloorSenate Passed
- Apr 1, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 292
- Apr 1, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 203
- Apr 1, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
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- Apr 1, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Feb 27, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/03
- Feb 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Government Oversight
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 50)
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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