Sec. 7-282. Municipal accident and police records. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 7-282. Municipal accident and police records. The police department of any city, town or borough having or receiving any memoranda, sketches, charts, written statements, reports or photographs made in the investigation of any accident wherein any person has been injured or property damaged shall preserve and retain the same for a period of at least ten years from the date of such accident. Subsequent to the final disposition of any criminal action arising out of an accident, the records hereinbefore specified and the information contained therein shall be open to public inspection, except that such records shall be available to any person involved in the accident subsequent to the issuance of a warrant or summons in such action.

      (1949 Rev., S. 676; 1957, P.A. 248; P.A. 80-61.)

      History: P.A. 80-61 raised period during which accident records must be maintained from 3 to 10 years and added provision that records be available to persons involved in accidents after warrant or summons issued.

      See Sec. 29-10c re state police accident records.

      Cited. 33 CA 727.