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Board of Pardons and Paroles reviews prescreen docket, grants multiple certificates of employability and pardons, denies several applications
Summary
At its April 6, 2026 public session the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles granted three certificates of employability and voted on a long expedited and prescreen docket, approving many pardon requests, scheduling numerous full hearings, and denying several petitions for reasons including public-safety concerns and incomplete offense details.
The Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles met April 6, 2026, in a public expedited prescreen session and moved through a lengthy certificate-of-employability and pardon docket, granting several immediate outcomes, scheduling multiple full hearings, and denying a number of petitions.
Chair Deborah Smith Palmeri opened the session and summarized the Board’s public process, including that an absolute pardon granted at the expedited hearing may take up to 10 weeks to be reflected in public records and that certificates of employability are mailed within about two weeks. Board members present were Sergio Rodriguez and Joy Chance.
On the certificate-of-employability docket the panel granted a COE to Deborah Brathwaite, Kirk Allen Donovan (with a no-contact-with-minors employment condition), and Gregory (name pronounced in the record; referred to here as Gregory per the transcript). Each motion carried with the support of the chair and both board members.
The panel then proceeded through an expedited pardon docket (cases that do not require victim…
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