Posted on 06/04/2023 6:32:44 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Supporters of the so-called Clean Slate Act rallied for its passage on Saturday in the waning days of the legislative session.
The closely watched bill would seal most criminal records in New York state after a certain window of time.
At a rally in the South Bronx, lawmakers and advocates made a final entreaty for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to secure its passage in that chamber. The legislative session in Albany ends on June 8, and while lawmakers say they’re hopeful for its passage, they’ve so far been tight-lipped on the holdup.
“We all know it’s all the right thing to do, and it doesn’t make any sense for us to hold it up any longer,” said Assemblymember Chantel Jackson of the Bronx, who is a co-sponsor on the bill and has rallied behind the cause for years. “This is going to stimulate our economy. This is going to make people whole … and we know that we reduce crime when we have people working and people who are housed.”
The bill passed the Senate last week and now awaits action in the Assembly. It’s a culmination of a yearslong push from criminal justice advocates who saw their hopes of its passage dashed last year over what lawmakers chalked up to technical issues.
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New York is more dangerous than Mexico.
In 1960, if you were convicted of a crime, you could move to another state and start over.
The records were on paper, in courthouses, and checking for criminal convictions was very difficult.
The digital revolution has meant you cannot move away from your past and start over.
The left believes that no one should go to prison for theft, murder, assault, rape. The only ones who should go to prison are the ones who were in Washington on Jan 6.
So serial rapist, serial child molester, pedophiles, murderers and low life criminals will have their records cleaned and can start over before a judge as a first time offense and be forgiven
I do not think so.
Far to easy to dig up minor offenses many years later and have use them against someone.
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