# Connecticut signs SB 5 on online safety, with frontier-developer whistleblower duties

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-05-27
- **Jurisdiction**: Connecticut (United States)
- **Instrument**: Connecticut SB 5: An Act Concerning Online Safety (Public Act 26-15)
- **Impact level**: High
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## What changed

Public Act 26-15 was signed. Its frontier provisions, effective 1 October 2026, protect whistleblowers and require large frontier developers to set up an internal reporting process and report to their boards. Recorded from search extracts of the General Assembly's pages.

## What it means in practice

Large frontier developers should have an anonymous internal reporting process by 1 January 2027.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-CHG-0150 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0150; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-05-27-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety-signed
- **Official source**: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF
- **Source document**: Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)
- **Published by**: Connecticut General Assembly
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Connecticut signs SB 5 on online safety, with frontier-developer whistleblower duties" [AIPT-CHG-0150, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0150 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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