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An Act Concerning Requirements For State Contracts Concerning Automated License Plate Reader Information.

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Connecticut Substitute Bill 5552 has not been enacted. It was reported out of the Government Administration and Elections Committee with a favorable substitute report and tabled for the House calendar. If enacted, Section 1 would take effect October 1, 2026. It would set conditions on public agency contracts with vendors that own or operate automated license plate readers, or that have access to the information those readers gather. Beginning October 1, 2026, no public agency could enter into or renew such a contract unless it barred the vendor, for information gathered in Connecticut, from doing four things. (1) Selling the information. (2) Sharing or transferring it to anyone other than the contracting agency without the agency's prior express written authorization for a specific purpose and prior notification to the Governor. (3) Letting anyone other than the contracting agency access it, except under a signed judicial warrant or valid court order, which excludes grand jury subpoenas or demands. (4) Storing it together with other agencies' or persons' plate reader information, storing it outside Connecticut, or storing it without industry-recognized data security practices such as encryption. Contracts would also have to include vendor consent to personal jurisdiction in Connecticut and a clause making Connecticut law the controlling law (subsection (c)). Under subsection (d), plate reader information would be confidential and exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Exceptions would cover the sharing allowed under subsection (b)(2) and requests by a person for information about a vehicle registered in their name. If the vehicle has a co-registrant, that person must also consent. Reader locations and audit, usage-log and access-log data would remain disclosable, with plate reader information redacted. Under subsection (e), the Attorney General could sue to enforce subsections (b) and (c) and seek injunctive relief.

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