AN ACT CONCERNING FINGERPRINT COLLECTION BY MUNICIPAL AND STATE POLICE.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5135*
*January Session, 2009*		LCO No. 424

Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
REP. ORANGE, 48th Dist. SEN. DAILY, 33rd Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING FINGERPRINT COLLECTION BY MUNICIPAL AND STATE POLICE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to prohibit any municipal police station or state police station from refusing to collect the fingerprints of a person requesting such fingerprinting for the purposes of a criminal history records check in accordance with section 29-17a of the general statutes or other noncriminal purpose based upon such person's residence in another municipality.

Statement of Purpose:

To prohibit police departments from refusing to fingerprint a person based upon such person's residence.