Section 10-10g - [Effective 7/1/2025] Compilation of information re services and resources of domestic violence. Publication. Dissemination(a) Not later than December 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Office of Victim Services within the Judicial Department, in consultation with the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence, shall compile information concerning services and resources available to victims of domestic violence and sexual assaultand provide such information electronically to the Department of Education, and electronically and in hard copies to (1) the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, (2) each municipal police department, and (3) each ambulance company and organization, whether public, private or voluntary, that offers transportation or treatment services to patients under emergency conditions. Such information shall include, but need not be limited to, (A) referrals available to counseling and supportive services, including, but not limited to, the Safe at Home program administered by the Office of the Secretary of the State, sexual assault crisis centers,shelter services, medical services, domestic abuse and sexual assault hotlines, legal counseling and advocacy, mental health care and financial assistance, and (B) procedures to voluntarily and confidentially identify eligibility for referrals to such counseling and supportive services. Such information shall be translated into, and provided in, multiple languages, including, but not limited to, English, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.(b) Not later than January 1, 2020, the Department of Education shall publish the information compiled and provided pursuant to subsection (a) of this section on the Internet web site of the department. If informed of any necessary revisions by the Office of Victim Services within the Judicial Department, the Department of Education shall revise such published information.(c) For the school year commencing July 1, 2020, and each school year thereafter, the Department of Education shall disseminate the information published pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to each local and regional board of education. Each local and regional board of education shall require the provision of such information to any (1) student or parent or guardian of a student who expresses to a school employee, as defined in section 10-222aa, that such student or parent or guardian or a person residing with such student or parent or guardian does not feel safe at home due to domestic violence or sexual assault, and (2) parent or guardian of a student who authorizes the transfer of such student's education records to another school.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-10g
Amended by P.A. 24-0127,S. 4 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2025.Amended by P.A. 23-0167,S. 56 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2025.Amended by P.A. 24-0127,S. 3 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2024 Regular Session, eff. 6/5/2024.Amended by P.A. 22-0047, S. 64 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2022 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2022.Added by P.A. 19-0146, S. 1 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2019 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2019.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.