Legislators should amend our state’s vacatur law, Connecticut General Statutes § 54-95c (2016), to allow more victims of human trafficking to request that a court vacate—i.e. set aside or annul—their criminal convictions.
The current statute is both unduly narrow and dangerously overbroad. Enacted in 2013, Connecticut’s vacatur statute has yet to be invoked by a single trafficking victim. The original statute was a narrow provision that allowed any person convicted of prostitution to apply to the Superior Court to vacate their conviction based on a showing that the applicant was a victim of trafficking “at the time of the offense.”
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