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Derek Slap
Towns represented: Bloomfield, Burlington, Farmington, West Hartford
Derek Slap, of West Hartford, earned an M.B.A. from the UConn School of Business and bachelor’s degrees in broadcast journalism and international relations from Syracuse University. Slap was a news anchor and reporter at NBC Connecticut from 1999 to 2004. He has also worked as Director of Communications for Senate Democrats, Chief of Staff for the Senate Democratic Caucus, and as a lecturer at Sacred Heart University, Yale University and Quinnipiac University, among others. In 2017, he won an ARC Angel Award.
Slap was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in a special election on February 26, 2019. Slap previously represented District 19 in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2019.
TENURE INFO
- Tenure: 2019 – Present
- Term ends: 2027
2025 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
- Judiciary Committee
- Appropriations Committee
- Government Oversight Committee
- Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee, Co-Chair
- Public Health Committee
- Public Safety & Security Committee, Vice Chair
- Select Committee on Special Education
2024 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
State Senate District 5 — at a glance
Population
| Total population | 99,330 |
| Foreign-born population | 16,749 |
| Population under age 18 | 21,521 |
| Population ages 65+ | 18,235 |
Ethnicity
| Percent Latino | 11% |
| Percent white | 70% |
| Percent Black | 6% |
| Percent other race | 13% |
Housing
| Total households | 39,906 |
| Owner-occupied households | 28,775 |
| Homeownership rate | 72% |
| Cost-burdened households | 10,729 |
| Cost-burden rate | 27% |
Income
| Poverty status known | 97,964 |
| Population in poverty | 5,710 |
| Poverty rate | 6% |
| Low-income population | 12,401 |
| Low-income rate | 13% |
District data used with permission of DataHaven 2024 Connecticut State Legislative District Profiles. Legislator data used with permission of Ballotpedia. Have a correction or addition to report about this data? Email us.
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