ALBANY â State lawmakers are considering legislation that would automatically seal and expunge most criminal convictions under the proposed Clean Slate Act.
The bill would include a two-step process that would first automatically seal certain traffic infractions and misdemeanors after one year and three years after a felony conviction, as long as the individual is not on probation or parole or is required to register as a sex offender. The conviction record would later be automatically expunged.
A virtual press conference was held Thursday prior to a public hearing of the state Senateâs Standing Committee on Codes to push for passage of the bill.
ALBANY â State lawmakers are considering legislation that would automatically seal and expunge most criminal convictions under the proposed Clean Slate Act.
The bill would include a two-step process that would first automatically seal certain traffic infractions and misdemeanors after one year and three years after a felony conviction, as long as the individual is not on probation or parole or is required to register as a sex offender. The conviction record would later be automatically expunged.
A virtual press conference was held Thursday prior to a public hearing of the state Senateâs Standing Committee on Codes to push for passage of the bill.
Grondahl: Albany city leaders talk frankly about race
Sheehan, Ellis, others say community s reckoning is painful, ongoing and necessary
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Albany Common Council Member Kelly Kimbrough (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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ALBANY – Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s heartbreaking moment of acknowledging white supremacy occurred when her son, who is adopted and Black, came home from preschool and repeated what a white child told him, “It’s bad to be Black.”
Common Council President Corey Ellis, who is Black, experienced racist policing in 2007 when a white cop followed his Lexus with its Ellis11 license plates for 2 miles along Lark Street and Delaware Avenue before he stopped Ellis for no apparent reason other than, he believes, driving while Black.
Albany judge was under investigation prior to resignation
Disciplinary commission says William Carter tried to intercede in gun permit application; his lawyer denies it
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When he resigned from office last in March, Albany County Judge William Carter was under investigation for allegedly trying to have a friend s application for a pistol permit assigned to him, according to the state Commission on Judicial Conduct. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY When he resigned from office last month, Albany County Judge William Carter was under investigation for allegedly trying to have a friend s application for a pistol permit assigned to him, according to the state Commission on Judicial Conduct.
The charges Derek Chauvin faces as the region, country await verdict
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1of3FILE - This May 31, 2020, file photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff shows former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was arrested for the May 25 death of George Floyd. As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn t breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, Chauvin, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd s neck, dismissed his pleas, saying ait takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk, according to transcripts of body camera video recordings made public Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (Hennepin County Sheriff via AP, File) Show MoreShow Less