Rule 34a-20. Discovery

(a) Access to the records of the Department of Children and Families shall be permitted in accordance with General Statutes § 17a-28 and other applicable provisions of the law.

(b) Pretrial discovery by interrogatory, production, inspection or deposition of a person may be allowed with the permission of the judicial authority only if the information or material sought is not otherwise obtainable and upon a finding that proceedings will not be unduly delayed.

(c) Upon its own motion or upon the request of a party, the judicial authority may limit discovery methods, and specify overall timing and sequence, provided that the parties shall be allowed a reasonable opportunity to obtain information needed for the preparation of their case. The judicial authority may grant the requested discovery, order reciprocal discovery, order appropriate sanctions permitted under Section 13-14 for any clear misuse of discovery or arbitrary delay or refusal to comply with a discovery request, and deny, limit, or set conditions on the requested discovery, including any protective orders under Section 13-5.

(d) If the judicial authority permits discovery, the provisions of Sections 13-1 through 13-11 inclusive, 13-14, 13-16, 13-21 through 13-32 inclusive may be incorporated in the discovery order in the discretion of the judicial authority. Motions for discovery or disclosure of confidential records should not be filed unless the moving party has attempted unsuccessfully to obtain an appropriate release or agreement to disclose from the party or person whose records are being sought.

(e) If, subsequent to compliance with any filed request or order for discovery and prior to or during trial, a party discovers additional or new material or information previously requested and ordered subject to discovery or inspection, or discovers that the prior compliance was totally or partially incorrect or, though correct when made, is no longer true and the circumstances are such that a failure to amend the compliance is in substance a knowing concealment, that party shall promptly notify the other party, or the other party's attorney and file and serve in accordance with Sections 10-12 through 10-17 a supplemental or corrected compliance.