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State's New Regulations Site Aims To Increase Accessibility, Transparency

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. – Gov. Dannel Malloy and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill recently announced Connecticut’s website of state regulations has relaunched with a goal of increasing public accessibility and transparency in the state’s regulation process.

Located at eregulations.ct.gov, the website allows users to easily search the state’s regulations using common text searching or advanced Boolean searching, and allows for search filtering to find information faster, according to a press release.

“Making all state regulations available online is a feature that should have been provided many, many years ago, and upon taking office I made the creation of this website a priority in order to improve efficiency and transparency in state government,” Malloy said in a press release. “It is our hope that by creating this website, members of the public and employers doing business in our state will find it much easier to review existing regulations, learn about any new regulations that may be taking effect and provide their own comments to the state whenever a proposed regulation is making its way through the approval process.”

A new feature for proposed regulations provides users with real-time access to the approval process as new regulations are being made and captures a chronological record of each proposed regulation as it proceeds through that process. When a regulation is open for public comment, members of the public will now be able to submit a comment directly through the website and will be able to view other comments that have been submitted.

A new alert feature allows the public to sign up for email notifications when agencies post information to the database, providing the public with greater ability to monitor regulations.

The newly launched website is part of a comprehensive modernization project to make these documents available over the Internet, according to a press release. Before 2013, state regulations were not available online, except through commercial legal material providers.

Now newly enhanced, the website puts all of this information into one location and promotes greater interaction between the agency and the people affected by agency regulations, according to a press release.

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