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Online Criminal Records Stir Controversy
A database containing over one million criminal records from the Connecticut judicial system since 2000 is now available online, prompting criticism from privacy rights advocates.
Finding a Job with a Criminal Record
“Are they just trying to put people in the unemployment lines?” asked Richard Caron, director of the non-profit organization Connecticut Pardon Team, which helps ex-convicts after their release.
It’s against the law for employers to discriminate against ex-convicts for their criminal records except in cases where the past crime is somehow related to the job. And criminal convictions are already public records.
However, they can usually only be obtained by going through files at the state archives. The online database makes access easier.
Task Force Puts Records Online
A task force of judges, lawyers, state officials and media convened in 2006 after a series of secrecy scandals with the goal of making the court system more transparent. In a 10-7 vote, the task force decided to place all misdemeanor and felony convictions online.
Experts say little can be done about the flow of information online.
“The genie is not going back in the bottle,” said public police professor Harry Holzer of Georgetown University.
(Source: Courant.com)
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