Tuesday, March 03, 2009

HB59 Records Expungement Bill in Judy Cmte on Wednesday

HB59 The records expungement bill.

This bill is sponsored by Rep. Chris England and would allow people who have been arrested but never convicted of a crime to have their records expunged. Currently the records are kept on file forever and can prevent someone from getting a job or living in public housing or traveling. If you have ever been arrested and charged with a crime but not convicted then the arrest is still on your record and under current law there is no way to get it off. This bill would remedy that.

This bill will be in committee on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 and I need all of my readers to call and email the members of the judiciary committee and ask them to pass this bill.

Emails are firstname.lastname@alhouse.org Example marcel.black@alhouse.org

Marcel Black
Room 516-F
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7667

Spencer Collier
Room 540-D
11 South Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7719

Paul DeMarco
Room 537-F
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7740

Priscilla Dunn
Room 540-B
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7702

Chris England
Room 539-B
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7703

Laura Hall
Room 518
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7688

Tammy Irons
Room 526-B
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL. 36130
(334) 353-9032

Jamie Ison
Room 527-B
11 South Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7711

Marc Keahey
Room 630-A
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7748

Steve McMillan
Room 532
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7723

Charles Newton
Room 541-E
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-4460

John Robinson
Room 534-D
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7728

Yusuf Salaam
Room 539-E
11 South Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7746

Howard Sanderford
Room 528-B
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-4368

Cam Ward
Room 625-C
11 S. Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130
(334) 242-7750





3 comments:

Andrew in Alabama said...

Just got back from the Judiciary Committee... HB59 received a favorable report and was voted out of the committee.

Hopefully it will come up for a floor vote soon.

Loretta Nall said...

Thanks for the report Andrew. I had plans to be down there this morning but my daughter is home from school with strep throat. Glad this passed.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Loretta,

This bill is long overdue, there is no reason to punish the innocent that have been cleared of any wrong doing. Please keep us posted.

Thanks,

John