[[CNN Hails Activist Pushing Laws Hiding People’s Criminal Records]]
But CNN will be among the first to blame police or store owners for “not vetting” some criminal punk who goes on a tear.
CNN and ilk= creating problems where none existed, then blaming others when the inevitable happens
A standard liberal technique was employed to promote the law: offering the most sympathetic case possible. As Harlow described it, the activist had been arrested “in front of her children” after she bounced an $87 check “for groceries.” She was apparently jailed for that, and after being released, found herself barred from jobs, housing, and even colleges.
Odds that was the activist’s first arrest?
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Hiding criminal records is the exact equivalent of further minimizing actual punishment and further facilitating lawlessness among the general population. Oh, and I assume this means that felons will now be able to vote for Democrats.
The main problem with this is it actually punishes law abiding citizens whose clean records will now be meaningless, especially Black Americans from high crime rate communities. An employer will no longer be encouraged by a “clean” record, and I suspect this is probably a step towards eliminating the utility of background checks and perhaps even banning them altogether some day. Meanwhile, as righteous law-abiding American citizens will be impossible to distinguish from the lawless horde, employers will decide the odds are better hiring a foreigner than with an American whose background is sealed from view.
Another problem with this bonehead legislation is that the time periods are too short. Three years to erase a misdemeanor for example, does not account for the fact that many misdemeanor charges are by plea bargain, and many subsequent charges may be dropped or bargained into mere violations. Three or even twenty years is a very short time.
That leftism stoops so far as to make victims out of criminals should be one of the warning signs to everyone, but the nation is still full of fools.
When I worked in LE it was a revolving door. Most felons go right back to their criminal lifestyle when released from prison and come back to jail in a short period of time. So in reality, only a very small number of people will ever make it to the point where their records are sealed. And if they’ve actually gone straight, I don’t have a problem with their record being sealed.