Records of Statewide Grievance

Committee, Reviewing Committee and Grievance Panel (Amended June 26, 2006, to take effect Jan. 1, 2007.) (a) The Statewide Grievance Committee shall maintain the record of each grievance proceeding. The record in a grievance proceeding shall consist of the following: (1) The grievance panel’s record as set forth in Section 2-32 (i); (2) The reviewing committee’s record as set forth in Section 2-35 (e); (3) The Statewide Grievance Committee’s rec- ord; (4) Any probable cause determinations issued by the Statewide Grievance Committee or a reviewing committee; (5) Transcripts of hearings held before the Statewide Grievance Committee or a reviewing committee; (6) The reviewing committee’s proposed deci- sion; (7) Any statement submitted to the Statewide Grievance Committee concerning a proposed decision; (8) The Statewide Grievance Committee’s final decision; (9) The reviewing committee’s final decision; (10) Any request for review submitted to the Statewide Grievance Committee concerning a reviewing committee’s decision; and (11) The Statewide Grievance Committee’s decision on the request for review. (b) The following records of the Statewide Grievance Committee shall not be public: (1) All records pertaining to grievance com- plaints that have been decided by a local griev- ance committee prior to July 1, 1986. (2) All records of pending grievance complaints in which probable cause has not yet been deter- mined. (3) All records pertaining to grievance com- plaints that have been filed on or after July 1, 1986, and that have been dismissed by a griev- ance panel, by the Statewide Grievance Commit- tee or by a reviewing committee without a finding of probable cause that the attorney is guilty of mis- conduct. (4) All records of complaints dismissed pursu- ant to Section 2-32 (a) (2) and (c). (c) All records enumerated in subsection (a) pertaining to grievance complaints that have been filed on or after July 1, 1986, in which probable cause has been found that the attorney is guilty of misconduct shall be public, whether or not the complaint is subsequently dismissed. (d) Unless otherwise ordered by the court, all records that are not public shall be available only to the Statewide Grievance Committee and its counsel, the reviewing committees, the grievance panels and their counsel, the bar examining com- mittee, the standing committee on recommenda- tions for admission to the bar, disciplinary counsel, the client security fund committee and its counsel, a judge of the Superior Court, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, any grievance committee or other disciplinary authority of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut or, with the consent of the respondent, to any other person. Such records may be used or considered in any subsequent disciplinary or client security fund proceeding per- taining to the respondent. (e) Any respondent who was the subject of a complaint in which the respondent was misidenti- fied and the complaint was dismissed shall be deemed to have never been subject to disciplinary proceedings with respect to that complaint and may so swear under oath. Records of such griev- ance complaints shall not be public. (f) For purposes of this section, all grievance complaints that were pending before a grievance panel on July 1, 1986, shall be deemed to have been filed on that date. (P.B. 1978-1997, Sec. 32.) (Amended June 24, 2002, to take effect July 1, 2003; May 14, 2003, effective date changed to Oct. 1, 2003; Sept. 30, 2003, effective date changed to Jan. 1, 2004; amended June 26, 2006, to take effect Jan. 1, 2007; amended June 29, 2007, to take effect Jan. 1, 2008; amended June 30, 2008, to take effect Jan. 1, 2009.)