Law / United States / 
Connecticut
Employment applications to be obtained and retained in a secure manner, and destroyed on disposal
In force since .
A security baseline statutes rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Security
As of .
What it requires
- This binds each employer, other than an agency or political subdivision of the state, and applies to employment applications it obtains and retains.
- Obtain and retain employment applications in a secure manner.
- Employ reasonable measures to destroy or make unreadable employment applications upon disposal; at a minimum, shred them or otherwise permanently destroy them in a secure setting.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Civil penalty under subsection (b); the section provides that it may not exceed $500,000 for any single event.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 500
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may conduct investigations and hold hearings on any matter under the section (Sec. 42-472(a)), and the Attorney General, at the Commissioner's request, may apply to the Superior Court for an order restraining and enjoining a violation (Sec. 42-472(b)(1)).
What this law does
Each employer must obtain and retain employment applications in a secure manner. Each employer must employ reasonable measures to destroy or make unreadable such employment applications upon disposal. Disposal measures must, at a minimum, include the shredding or other means of permanent destruction of such employment applications in a secure setting. The section does not apply to any agency or political subdivision of the state.
Any person or entity that violates the section is subject to a civil penalty of five hundred dollars for each violation, which may not exceed five hundred thousand dollars for any single event. The section took effect on .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web, trains models, deploys a chatbot, sends automated outreach, makes high-risk automated decisions, processes voice recordings, processes biometric data, serves under-18s, operates a social platform, ships a mobile app, distributes a software product, generates content with AI, publishes adult content, operates an app store, reuses other publishers' content, records calls, records text chat or tracks devices.