Today approximately 2.3 million New Yorkers are being denied the opportunity to secure meaningful employment, housing, education and more because of a criminal record. A criminal record should not be a lifetime sentence. It’s time to give people a real chance to get back on their feet.
For those who have fulfilled their justice-system obligations, the process to clear their record can be burdensome and costly. New York has had an application-based process in place for three years, but under the current process, only 0.5% of the estimated eligible 600,000 New Yorkers have had their records cleared.
The barrier, which makes it difficult for people with a criminal
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