Today's cover: Controversial ‘Clean Slate’ bill to seal criminal records has cheers and jeers in Albany
State lawmakers are inching forward towards approving theto seal criminal records for the vast majority of crimes – both misdemeanors and felonies – once ex-cons serve their time.
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie said Wednesday he is “cynically cautiously optimistic” Clean Slate will pass this year.“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.
But some Republicans are appalled that offenses as serious as murder would be covered by the legislation, which follows criticism of other progressive reforms amid rising crime. Assemblyman Michael Tannousis pointed out that most employers can hire all the convicted criminals they want without any new legislation getting passed.
“These are people who paid their debt to society,” Paul Zuber, executive vice president of the Business Council of New York State, said at a Wednesday rally in the Capitol.
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