Formal Opinions

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• Jaekle and Johnston, Auditors of Public Accounts, 2001-019 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested our advice regarding your obligations under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4-61dd, known as the "whistleblower" statute. You have explained that, in the course of reviewing a whistleblower complaint, you have obtained access to client records from the Office of Protection and Advocacy.

• The Honorable Kevin B. Sullivan, State of Connecticut, 2001-027 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This letter is in response to your request for a formal legal opinion regarding the authority of the Chief Court Administrator, the Honorable Joseph Pellegrino, to eliminate the Connecticut Superior Court’s Geographical Area 16 ("G.A. 16") by closing the G.A. 16 courthouse in West Hartford and expanding the boundaries of G.A. 14 to incorporate all of the towns that are currently in G.A. 16.

• Honorable Valerie Lewis, Department of Higher Education, 2001-021 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  In your June 26, 2001 letter you request our opinion as to whether P.A. 01-141, §4 authorizes the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut State University System (CSUS) to establish, subject to authorization by the Board of Governors of Higher Education, a pilot education doctoral program to be conducted at one of its institutions only or whether such a doctoral program may be conducted at more than one of its institutions.

• Honorable Theodore S. Sergi, Connecticut State Department of Education, 2001-022 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have inquired whether the provisions of Special Act No. 01-7 (S.A. 01-7), and in particular Section 5 of the Special Act, empower the Hartford School Building Committee, created by the Special Act, to hire a school construction or program manager of its choosing, without having to comply with the strictures and mandates of the Hartford City Charter and various municipal ordinances or regulations addressing the purchase of goods and professional services by the city.

• John A. Danaher III, Commissioner Department of Public Safety, Formal Opinion 2008-007, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You requested an opinion regarding the scope of our Supreme Court’s decision in American Promotional Events, Inc., v. Blumenthal, 285 Conn. 192 (2008)

• Honorable J. Robert Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Formal Opinion 2008-006, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  It is the opinion of this office that the Department has the authority to obtain, without customer consent, customer identifying information from retail food establishments in connection with a foodborne illness outbreak.

• Honorable F. Philip Prelli, Department of Agriculture, Formal Opinion 2008-009, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You ask whether an individual who is an officer or employee of a tenant of the Hartford Regional Market may serve as a "public member" of the Authority's board of directors

• Honorable Anne Gnazzo, Department of Administrative Services, 2008-001 Formal Opinion, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  Your department has asked whether the state is responsible for paying increases to the minimum wage when state contracts are silent as to which party will absorb the cost associated with such increases

• Hon. Robert G. Jaekle, Hon. Kevin P. Johnston, State Auditors, State of Connecticut, Auditors of Public Accounts, Formal Opinion 2008-013, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  The property in question, comprised of 14.49 acres together with the improvements thereon, including the Theatre building and a two story house that had long been utilized as office space

• Herbert J. Shepardson, Esq., Chairperson, State Marshal Commission, Formal Opinion 2009-009, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have asked our opinion on several questions concerning State Marshals

• Hon. Edith Prague Senate Co-Chair, Hon. Kevin Ryan House Co-Chair Labor & Public Employees Committee, Hon. Martin Looney Senate Maj. Leader, Hon. Donald Williams, Jr. President Pro Tempore, Formal Opinion 2008-002, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  Public Act 07-161 requires municipalities to continue to provide survivor benefits to the surviving spouse of a paid police officer or firefighter who dies in the line of duty even after the spouse remarries.

• Allan B. Taylor, Chairman, State of Connecticut Board of Education, Formal Opinion 2008-003, Attorney General State of Connecticut

  You have asked whether the State Board of Education should continue to enforce Connecticut’s elementary and secondary school intra-district racial imbalance statutes

• 2015-03 Formal Opinion, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  A local board of education is statutorily authorized to "reemploy" a retired teacher currently receiving a retirement benefit from the Teachers' Retirement System, but the retired teacher may receive "no more than forty-five per cent of the maximum salary level for the assigned position."

• 2015-04 Formal Opinion, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  An opinion regarding whether the State Teachers' Retirement Board ("STRB") has the statutory authority to rescind credit for a member in the teachers' retirement system ("System")

• 2015-05 Formal Opinion, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  An opinion regarding whether the State Teachers' Retirement Board ("STRB") has the statutory authority to rescind credit for a member in the teachers' retirement system ("System")