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• Representative Thomas D. Ritter , Legislative Office Building, Room 4100 , 1993-011 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By letter dated February 26, 1993 you have asked for our advice as to whether an increase in the amount of money appropriated to municipalities under the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant program (Conn. Gen. Stat. e10-262h) which has been recommended by the governor for SFY 1993-94 is properly counted as a "general budget expenditure" for the purposes of determining whether the authorized expenditure limitation imposed by Conn. Gen. Stat. e2-33a, commonly known as "the spending cap", will be exceeded.

• Attorney General George Jepsen Appoints Executive Staff

• Steven Weinberger, Director, Office of the State Comptroller, 1993-009 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter of April 1, 1993 to this office in which you ask whether an active state employee who is currently a member of the State Employees Retirement System is barred from collecting a pension from the Judge's Retirement System while serving as a state employee.

• Landowner Required to Pay $282,000 Civil Penalty For Failure to Comply With Pollution Abatement Order

  Attorney General George Jepsen said that Ohio-based Cadlerock Properties Joint Venture, L.P. has been ordered to pay a $282,000 civil penalty for failing to comply with a pollution abatement order issued by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) in 1997.

• Richard G. Akeroyd, Jr., Connecticut State Library, 1993-034 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  We are writing in response to your letter of October 27, 1993 in which you request our advice on the question of whether the proceeds of a sale of certain pistols, the "Van Syckel Dragoons" (the "firearms"), by the State Library Board (the "Board") in connection with the deaccession of the firearms from the collection of the Raymond E. Baldwin Museum of Connecticut History, must be used exclusively for the purpose of furthering or of enhancing the Museum's collections of Colt materials.

• Media Advisory: 10th Annual Triad Conference

  Topics include: protecting and safeguarding yourself on Facebook; the changing senior demographics in Connecticut; preparing for the next disaster; and raising awareness about cutting edge scams.

• Robert G. Jaekle, Auditors of Public Accounts, 1993-038 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By letter dated December 2, 1992, you have requested an opinion as to whether the State Employees' Retirement Commission [hereinafter Commission or SERC] has the authority to place Nicholas A. Cioffi, who joined the State Employees' Retirement System [hereinafter SERS or the Retirement System] after July 1, 1984, in Tier I of that system, with no Social Security coverage.

• Attorney General Commends Service Providers For Storm-Related Customer Credits

  Attorney General George Jepsen Tuesday commended those cable, satellite television and telecommunications companies providing storm-related credits to Connecticut customers, which in many cases, exceed what the law and their service contracts required.

• Attorney General Closes Investigation Into Refurbished Computers By Staples

  Attorney General George Jepsen said Thursday that Staples, Inc. has addressed his concerns about the sale of used and refurbished computers in Connecticut by changing the process it uses to clear the hard drives of personal information of previous owners.

• Attorney General Calls for ‘Strict Scrutiny' of Proposed Rate Increase

• Robert R. Googins, Commissioner, Department of Insurance, 1993-005 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested our advice on several questions related to 1992 Conn. Public Act 92-158, An Act Concerning Extending Continuation Benefits to the Unemployed (hereinafter "Public Act 92-158"). Public Act 92-158 amended Conn. Gen. Stat. e 38a-538, which requires employers to offer employees whose employment has terminated for reasons other than death the option to purchase continued health insurance coverage under the employer's group health plan at the same group rate. Public Act 92-158 extended the time period for such continuation coverage from 78 weeks to 104 weeks.

• Attorney General Calls For Management Audit Of CL&P As Part Of Review By Utility Regulators

  Attorney General George Jepsen has asked state utility regulators to include an independent management audit of Connecticut Light & Power Co. as part of its review of the utility’s preparedness for and response to major outage events.

• Robert W. Werner, Division of Special Revenue, 1993-008 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  In your letter of February 11, 1993, you ask whether the State of Connecticut, as a creditor, is disabled from being the assignee of a Connecticut lottery winner because of a regulation which prohibits any assignment of lottery funds.

• Attorney General Seeks Information From Wells Fargo & Co About Disclosure Of Some Customers’ Social Security Numbers

  Attorney General George Jepsen is asking Wells Fargo & Co. for an explanation of why it may have disclosed the Social Security numbers of customers when it sent them copies of subpoenas issued by the state Department of Social Services as part of a fraud investigation.

• Steven J. Weinberger, Director, State Employees' Retirement Commission, 1993-001 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter of October 19, 1992 in which you relate that the State Employees' Retirement Commission's Subcommittee on Purchase of Service and Related Matters has requested an opinion from this office on the entitlement of Tier I hazardous duty members to obtain retirement credit for a leave of absence for service in the armed forces during peacetime, pursuant to the Veterans' Reemployment Rights Act.