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Make police records unavailable to the public?

• djbebs 4y ago
  Absolutely not, we should be requiring more state transparency, not less.
• phpisthebest 4y ago
  I will have to agree with the other commenter. While the natural response is to try ad protect the privacy of the accused or even the convicted by sealing the records, history is full of proof that governments that can act in secret rarely works out well for the people under the thumb of those governments. Secret Police records, generally result in a system where people just "disappear". So while there are good intentions to sealing police records, the result of those good intentions would likely result in extreme abuse of power I think the better course of action would be a path to have convictions expunged, and once expunged allowing for civil defamation against any entity or person that reports the individual was convicted once the record was expunged. The time it takes to expunge a record should be determined by the courts with a max time set in statute
• bluGill 4y ago
  There is enough repeat offenders that you can't let them do just anything. I don't know what the right answer is, but it isn't easy.