For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Judiciary Committee’s work, index headings include:
Adoption
Arson
Attorneys
Bail Laws
Bankruptcy
Birth Certificates
Capital Punishment
Child Abuse
Child Support
Children’s Rights
Civil Rights
Commitment
Computer Crime
Condominiums
CT Bar Association
Conservators
Corporations
Corrections-Departments
Court Reform
Courts-(subtopic folders for Housing, Juvenile, Probate, Small Claims)
Crime and Criminals
Crime Victims
Criminal Justice Administration
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Records
Criminal Statistics
Discrimination
Divorce
Domestic Violence
Drugs-Law and Legislation
Drugs-Testing
Drunk Driving
Easements
Elderly-Abuse
Eminent Domain
Ex-Convicts – Employment
Foreclosure
Forfeiture
Freedom of Information
Immigration and Naturalization
Immunity
Insanity Defense
Judges
Judicial Department
Judicial Procedure
Juries
Justices of the Peace
Juveniles
Juveniles-Delinquency
Kidnapping
Landlord-Tenant Relationships
Law Enforcement
Legal Aid
Liability-Legal
Liens
Malpractice
Marijuana
Marriage
Mortgages
Organized Crime
Pardons
Parole
Plea Bargaining
Police
Prisons and Prisoners
Privacy
Privileged Communications
Probate Code
Probation
Property
Rape
Search and Seizure
Sentencing
Sex Discrimination
Sex Offenders
Sexual Harassment
Sheriffs
Shield Law
State Marshals
Subpoena
Suicide-Assisted
Surrogate Parenting
Traffic Regulations
Traffic Violations
Trusts and Estates
Uniform and Model Laws
Vandalism
Weapons
Wiretapping
Witnesses
Workers’ Compensation
Workplace Violence
The library assigns topical index headings to all OLR Reports and keeps hard copies of the reports organized by these index headings. Reports from 1994 to the present are in the library’s file cabinets (aka the “vertical files”) in the red-tabbed folders, as well as online in full text. Older reports are in two sets of bound volumes (one set for the 1970s, and one for 1980-1993) on the library’s shelves.
The same index headings the library uses for OLR Reports have been used to organize over 600 subject files of materials such as newspaper clippings, court decisions, press releases, pamphlets, and other resources that would be more difficult to locate if they were dispersed throughout the library’s general collection. The subject files are in the blue-tabbed folders in the file cabinets. (Many of the items in these folders have also been digitized by the library, and their electronic versions can be found in the library’s intranet catalog.)