Bill Title: Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses; defines the term "eligible misdemeanor" to mean a misdemeanor that does not have as an element of the offense the use of a weapon or violence and which did not actually involve violence in its commission; defines the term, "nonsexual misdemeanor" to mean a misdemeanor under article 130 or 163 of the penal law or any offense that would require the offender to register as a sex offender under article 6-c of the correction law; provides an order granting sealing under this section shall restore the individual concerned, in the contemplation of the law, to the status such individual occupied before the arrest or institution of criminal proceedings for the crime that was the subject of the sealing.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-04 - PRINT NUMBER 1708B [S01708 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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