Connecticut § 2-40a - Disclosure of performance evaluations of judges and judge trial referees.
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§ 2-40a. Disclosure of performance evaluations of judges and judge trial referees.
Sec. 2-40a. Disclosure of performance evaluations of judges and judge trial referees. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 1-210 and chapter 55, (1) any performance evaluation of any judge or judge trial referee made by the Judicial Department shall be made available to the members of the joint standing committee on judiciary prior to any public hearing on the nomination of any such judge or judge trial referee, and (2) any performance evaluation of any judge by the Judicial Department shall be made available to the members of the Judicial Selection Commission in the performance of their duties as set forth in section 51-44a. Any information disclosed to such members shall be used by such members only for the purpose for which it was given and shall not be disclosed to any other person.
(P.A. 86-211; P.A. 89-238, S. 3, 4; P.A. 12-133, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 89-238 required judicial department to make performance evaluation of judges available to members of judicial selection commission; P.A. 12-133 added Subdiv. (1) and (2) designators, required that performance appraisal of a judge trial referee be made available to joint standing committee on judiciary prior to any public hearing on the nomination of such judge trial referee in Subdiv. (1) and made a technical change in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2012.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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