Prisoners housed in the Cheshire Correctional Institution’s COVID quarantine unit received word they are no longer allowed to shower, according to a May 1 notice sent from Counselor Supervisor Damian M. Doran to the unit’s quarantined population. According to the notice, the shower shutdown is a Department of Correction statewide ...
Some employees with Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services worked up to 137 consecutive days, bolstering their annual pay by three times their base salary, according to a report by the Auditors of Public Accounts. “We judgmentally selected 18 employees from units paying the highest amounts of overtime for ...
Rep. Craig Fishbein, R-Wallingford, filed a Freedom of Information request with the Office of the Governor for all documents, emails and information pertaining to Gov. Ned Lamont’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, setting up a potential showdown over the advisory group’s exemption from the state’s transparency laws. The advisory group, which ...
A committee in charge of managing charitable funds donated by state employees through a payroll deduction was found to have several reporting problems, according to a new audit. The State Employees’ Campaign for Charitable Giving was created by statute and allows state employees to authorize a payroll deduction that goes ...
“Gov. Lamont’s decision to exempt his recently-formed Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group from Freedom of Information laws is unacceptable and should be reversed. The Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group is tasked with making decisions that will impact the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands – possibly millions – of people across ...
A former director of the Wage and Workplace Standards Unit in the Department of Labor reported that “a field investigator falsely reported time for years, but the department did not take action to investigate or reprimand the employee,” according to an audit of the DOL. The auditors said their investigation ...