PER CURIAM.
The plaintiff, Lamberto Lucarelli, appeals from the trial court's judgment dismissing the plaintiff's appeal from the decisions of the defendant commission on human rights and opportunities (commission), which dismissed two separate discrimination complaints filed by the plaintiff against the defendants, the town of Old Saybrook (town) and the division of criminal justice (state). On appeal, the plaintiff claims that the commission improperly dismissed his complaints against (1) the town because he did not file his complaint in a timely manner under General Statutes § 46a-82 (f) and (2) the state because he failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The following undisputed facts are relevant to our consideration of the plaintiff's claims. The plaintiff, who is of Italian ancestry, visited the town transfer station where he observed a toilet seat extender. At that time, he "either expressed curiosity about or interest in taking ownership" of the toilet seat extender. Upon a subsequent visit to the transfer station, the plaintiff reported seeing the item on the
The following procedural background is also relevant. On December 9, 2008, the plaintiff filed two separate complaints with the commission alleging discrimination by the town and the state.
We turn next to our standard of review of the plaintiff's claims. "Judicial review of an administrative agency decision requires a court to determine whether there is substantial evidence in the administrative record to support the agency's findings of basic fact and whether the conclusions drawn from those facts are reasonable.... [A]s to questions of law, [t]he court's ultimate duty is only to decide whether, in light of the evidence, the [agency] has acted unreasonably, arbitrarily, illegally, or in abuse of its discretion.... Conclusions of law reached by the administrative agency must stand if the court determines that they resulted from a correct application of the law to the facts found and could reasonably and logically follow from such facts." (Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Blinkoff v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, 129 Conn.App. 714, 720-21, 20 A.3d 1272, cert. denied, 302 Conn. 922, 28 A.3d 341 (2011).
The plaintiff first claims that the commission improperly dismissed his complaint against the town as untimely. We are not persuaded.
Pursuant to § 46a-82(f), complaints filed with the commission must be "filed within one hundred and eighty days after the alleged act of discrimination...." In Williams v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, 257 Conn. 258, 777 A.2d 645, aff'd after remand, 67 Conn.App. 316, 786 A.2d 1283 (2001), our Supreme Court held that the time requirement under § 46a-82(f) is mandatory. "[A mandatory] time requirement ...
The last instance of discrimination alleged by the plaintiff in his complaint with the commission occurred on March 6, 2008, which is the date, according to the plaintiff, that he last observed the toilet seat extender at the transfer station.
The plaintiff next claims that the commission erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint against the state for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. The commission determined that the plaintiff's complaint did not allege any discrimination on the part of the office of the state's attorney in declining to prosecute any individuals relating to the continued presence of the toilet seat extender at the town transfer station.
The trial court upheld the commission's decision, concluding that, even if a crime had been committed, prosecutors have "a wide range of discretion" in how to proceed in a criminal prosecution. We agree. "Prosecutors ... have a wide latitude and broad discretion in determining when, who, why and whether to prosecute for violations of the criminal law.... This broad discretion, which necessarily includes deciding which citizens should be prosecuted and for what charges they are to be held accountable ... rests largely on the recognition that the decision to prosecute is particularly ill-suited to judicial review." (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Kinchen, 243 Conn. 690, 699, 707 A.2d 1255 (1998).
On the basis of our review of the record, there is nothing that suggests that a failure to prosecute on the part of state's attorney was based on discrimination. Also, we agree with the trial court that it is not clear that any crime has occurred for the state to prosecute. Therefore, we conclude that there was substantial evidence in the record for the commission to determine that the plaintiff's claim against the state failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.
The judgment is affirmed.