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Controversial ‘Clean Slate’ Bill to Seal Criminal Records Has Cheers and Jeers in Albany
New York Post ^ | May 31, 2023 | Zach Williams

Posted on 05/31/2023 5:46:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

“We’re just down to the technical changes that we’re having conversations about. So we don’t have the final version yet but it is something conceptually I do support,” Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters in New York City on Wednesday.

People convicted of sex crimes are explicitly ineligible, according to the legislative language, which has no effect on media reports concerning past crimes.

The proposal would allow certain employers like law enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors, schools, and even Uber to access sealed records. The DMV and government officials could also view rap sheets when people respectively apply for driving-related jobs and gun licenses.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: newyork

1 posted on 05/31/2023 5:46:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 05/31/2023 6:07:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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The proposal would allow certain employers like law enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors, schools, and even Uber to access sealed records. The DMV and government officials could also view rap sheets when people respectively apply for driving-related jobs and gun licenses.
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sealed with a sieve...................


3 posted on 05/31/2023 6:18:10 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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So you can hire people like Quantaurius Simmons, have ticking time bombs on your staff, and not even know it.
4 posted on 05/31/2023 6:23:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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Why is it government won’ t let other know about these people, yet they always can know about them?

If anything it should be the other way round.


5 posted on 05/31/2023 6:27:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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If you think about it....a guy comes up to apply for a job, and he has a 1-year ‘hole’ in his resume....a normal HR office would just pass on the interview. I don’t see where this criminal ‘benefit’ helps.


6 posted on 05/31/2023 8:37:05 PM PDT by pepsionice
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They will just mandate that you hire all parolees. In New York, you can’t screen tenants based on their eviction records which are sealed. CRAZY!


7 posted on 06/04/2023 6:29:28 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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