Pure Politics with Ryan Alessi on Expungement
For more than 94,000 Kentuckians, a single mistake continues to haunt
each one of them, barring them from getting certain jobs, expanding
their businesses, volunteering at their children’s’ schools or even
going hunting.
It’s what one public defender calls “an economic death sentence."
On Thursday, Rep. Darryl T. Owens, D-Louisville, will pre-file a
bill for the 2014 legislative session to provide a path to redemption
for those 94,000 Kentuckians, who have a single non-violent felony on
their records.
Owens will try for a second consecutive session to pass a felony
expungement bill. It’s modeled off of the process in Indiana, which is
one of 17 states that have some form of expungement process.
video with Public Advocate Ed Monahan and Representative Darryl Owens
