CT: People can put criminal past behind them in the new year (except those with…)
With the new year, tens of thousands of people in Connecticut will be able to put their criminal pasts behind them, and moving forward others convicted of future crimes will have the same opportunity.
The state’s “Clean Slate” law that takes effect today, New Year’s Day, will allow reformed offenders convicted of a lengthy list of misdemeanor and low-level felony convictions to have their criminal records automatically erased.
The law provides for the automatic erasure of the covered misdemeanor convictions after seven years following someone’s most recent conviction and the applicable felonies after 10 years.
…sexual offenses requiring sex offender registration are excluded.
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Serious question on this for the FLAC – isn’t this an area which challenges could be made? I mean I get the whole “the registry isn’t punishment” schtick that they put out, but if one segment is excluded from what all other crimes gets – that seems to single things out – yes?
A challenge can be made to anything, yes.
Brian
Many us do not work due to either being held down by the registry or due to failing health like myself. F.A.C does not have endless funds coming in so they have to pick the best fight with the money they have.
Prayers and blessing for all of us in 2023 for victories and celebrations. For where there is truth, there should also be freedom.
Also still awaiting the Ex post facto case decision whenever the courts set a date?
Yes everything can be challenged regardless.
Read the sex offender law and than read the Constitution and you find out that it violates the Constitution not only in one area but multiple areas but as I upset on multiple occasions on this subject politicians do not want the public to know the truth that is why they hide the truth.
One truth in particular that I’m passionate about is the right to vote under the Federal Constitution of the United States it reads that when and inmate has paid his debt to society and this includes probation parole and whatnot that that inmate is supposed to receive all of his rights back this includes the right to vote but each state has its own laws that prevent this.
I have read and honestly I do not remember where but it was a long time ago that Federal Constitution overrides all state constitutions but yet the federal government does nothing in short the Sex Offender Registration is a biased law which automatically makes it illegal it shingles out sex offenders from all other felons such offenders are the only felons that have to register and pay to be on said registry no others do.
Out of all the felons in the United States the 1 million plus sex offenders have the best track record of never committing another crime.
Of the 1 million plus sex offenders in the United States less than 1% are considered violent out of that less than 1% of violent crimes 80% are committed by females.
And yes you can Google these statistics up there are many groups out there that post the statistics but again as I have said before politicians don’t want their voters to know the truth.
Here’s a fun fact: in the United States all sex crimes are considered violent crimes but yet 97.8% of all the sex crimes are under lewd and lascivious codes which are considered nonviolent.
Most public policy decisions aren’t susceptible to Constitutional challenge, for better or worse.
It’s possible that there’s precedent for courts holding that laws like this one violate a provision of the Constitution, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m guessing it doesn’t.
As long as there’s a public registry, does it really matter if one’s criminal record is sealed or expunged? One look at the charges convicted for (and that’s all the registry shows) is all most go by. Few, if anyone, look into the specific circumstances of any given case.
An Abomination!!!!!!!! Here in PA, my charge was F3 (The lowest felony and very slightly above M1). What do we have to do to get the politically charged world we live in, to see the light. NOT to mention THE FACTS. OMG
OH, I forgot to mention, Happy New Year to everyone out there. Well, at least as happy as it can be
Dale
Thank you. Pray for a miracle and hope for a hail Mary pass for the win. Maybe 2023 is our year.
Hooray!
Oh wait…. yeah, of course not. 😒🙄
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But of course sex offenses are excluded, when are they ever!
We will have our day, just like others with criminal histories. They fought for their day. We must do the same.
Reminds me of the stories of the leper colonies.
There has, historically, been fear around leprosy and people with the disease have suffered stigma, isolation and social exclusion. Expulsion of individuals infected with leprosy to quarantined areas or special institutions has been the general protocol since ancient times.
Now just replace leprosy with sex offenders, registered offenders etc. The lepers committed no crimes but were treated like criminals. We committed a crime most likely but it is being held over our heads decades past our sentences ended.
Why am I making a comparison? We keep getting pushed further and further from having any rights and being banned from certain areas. We know the pages and pages of new rules and laws they apply each new session with us on a daily basis wondering if that will be the day they knock on our door to take us away.
Cherokee, Interesting that you make that comparison. For the 5 yrs that I’ve had to register, I have been using the Leper comparison also. Nobody that I have ever told this to hasn’t understood what I was talking about, until I explain the commonalities we share.
If we are referring to Biblical leprosy, we are treated more like leprous tax collecting prostitutes. The worst of the worst of the worst, even for those who had charges that would get probation and counseling in a more forward thinking state.