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Groundbreaking Automated Record Sealing with Broad Support Will Help Pennsylvanians Get a Second Chance Today, a providing for automated sealing of qualified criminal cases (HB 1419) was signed by Governor Tom Wolf. This bill will make Pennsylvania the first state to seal criminal cases by automated computer processes. The bill enjoyed remarkably broad support, including from legislators and advocacy groups that rarely find common ground. Clean Slate provides for automatic sealing of arrests ending without convictions immediately, summary offense convictions after 10 years, and some misdemeanor convictions after 10 years. It also expands Pennsylvania’s sealing law to include some first-degree misdemeanors. Clean Slate is an extremely important bill for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians with old and minor criminal convictions or who were arrested but not convicted. Sealing a criminal case is a life-changing remedy for those who qualify, opening doors to employment, housing and education.
Clean Slate is the brainchild of Community Legal Services (CLS) and the Center for American Progress (CAP). CLS had been filing thousands of expungement petitions each year, but recognized that this filing process could only help the small fraction of people with records whom we could represent.
With this in mind, CLS and CAP conceptualized an automated process to seal minor criminal cases. This reform was the lead recommendation in their December 2014 report,. Clean Slate’s bipartisan support is unusual in these contentious political times. The prime sponsors in the House were Rep.
Sheryl Delozier (R-Cumberland) and Rep. Jordan Harris (D-Philadelphia), who often have strongly divergent political viewpoints, but came together on this bill. A comparable Clean Slate bill in the Senate (SB 529) was sponsored by the unlikely pairing of Sen.
Scott Wagner (R-York) and Sen. Anthony Williams (D-Philadelphia). Governor Tom Wolf has called for the bill to be sent to his desk for his signature. Clean Slate has enjoyed unusually broad support from wide variety of organizations from across the political spectrum. Notable among these groups are: the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry; the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO; Koch Industries and Americans for Prosperity – PA; the Pennsylvania District Attorney Association; the Players Coalition, through Philadelphia Eagles Malcolm Jenkins and Chris Long, and former Eagle Torrey Smith; and a large group of Pennsylvania-based organizations. A list of supporters is below. The legislation also was supported nationally by the bipartisan Justice Action Network, comprising members as diverse as: the Center for American Progress; FreedomWorks; Americans for Tax Reform; the ACLU; Right on Crime; the NAACP; and the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
Sharon Dietrich, Litigation Director of Community Legal Services, said, “I commend the legislators and supporters who put aside their differences to come together behind Clean Slate. I also thank our clients who have worked on this bill for many others beyond themselves.” She continued, “The people who will be helped by Clean Slate were not given a life sentence for their relatively minor cases. But they are serving one just the same. Clean Slate will do so much good for so many people, at almost no cost.” Donna H is one of CLS’s clients who will be helped by the bill.
She said, “I have two old misdemeanor convictions from 1986 and 1998 that do not stand for who I am today. This criminal record kept me underemployed for years. It is very upsetting that my record remains a barrier for me after all this time.” Clean Slate also has attracted national interest. Efforts to replicate Clean Slate are underway in South Carolina, Colorado and Michigan. A Clean Slate bill applicable to federal criminal cases is expected to be introduced shortly.
People whose records are newly eligible for sealing under the bill can file petitions to seal their records 180 days after the bill is signed. Automated sealing will begin within two years of the signing, providing time for the Pennsylvania State Police and the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts to implement the needed computer changes. For more information about Clean Slate, contact: Sharon Dietrich, Litigation Director, (w) 215-981-3719; (c) 215-605-6903;. About Community Legal Services, Inc.: Community Legal Services (CLS) has provided free civil legal assistance to more than one million low-income Philadelphians, including approximately 9,500 clients in the past year.
CLS attorneys and other staff provide a full range of legal services, from individual representation to administrative advocacy to class action litigation, as well as community education and social work. CLS is nationally recognized as a model legal services program. For more information, contact 215-981-3700 or visit. ### Supporters of Clean Slate (HB 1419) American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Americans for Prosperity Pennsylvania A.Z.E.
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Ukraine. United Arab Emirates. Clean Slate Blu-ray Review Reviewed by, May 17, 2017 Mick Jackson's 'Clean Slate' (1994) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of independent distributors Olive Films. The only bonus feature on the disc is an original trailer for the film. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A 'locked'. The clueless detective It is possible that my initial expectations of Clean Slate might have been a bit too low, but the film still turned out to be unusually good.
In fact, I would argue that with a few minor improvements it probably would have been excellent. Dana Carvey plays an LA-based private detective named Maurice Pogue who suffers from some very rare form of amnesia. Each night when he goes to sleep, Maurice's brain hits the reset button in the back of his head and in the morning he wakes up without any memories. The only way he can reconstruct his past is by listening to a small tape recorder that he uses as his permanent memory bank - he keeps recording himself and updating his life story so that on the following morning he can resume being Maurice.
But the recovery system begins to crumble when Maurice reconnects with a beautiful model (Valeria Golino, ) with a murky past, and then some very persistent high-roller named Cornell (Michael Gambon, ) and his bodyguards come knocking on his door demanding that he agrees not to testify in an upcoming trial. Initially Maurice decides to play it safe and basically do what he is asked because he has absolutely no idea who are the people that he is dealing with, but when his actions create an even bigger mess he begins looking for a permanent solution to his troubles. This of course turns out to be a very serious challenge because the important trial is just days away and each morning he has to rebuild his life from scratch. Director Mick Jackson completed Clean Slate a year after Harold Ramis' so obviously it is impossible not to draw at least some comparisons between the two, but the truth is that they are very different films. Clean Slate is sort of a goofy neo-noirish thriller that really feels most comfortable when it functions as a romantic comedy. In other words, there is a lot more genre overlapping in Clean Slate, with Carvey essentially undergoing a couple of different character transformations to make all of the contrasting material stick together.
The film works quite well. Because the narrative is fractured into multiple pieces it takes a bit longer to reveal the big picture, but the material isn't repetitive and more importantly the viewer's intelligence isn't assaulted. Indeed, there are nicely scripted twists and logical revelations that essentially allow various relationships to evolve in believable ways and make the motives of different players easy to understand. Carvey is charming and genuinely funny and at the end leaves the impression that he was in fact the right person to play the clueless detective. Golino is also convincing as the exotic femme fatale (the accent is real), though it is probably fair to say that her moment of revelation comes a bit too soon. The supporting cast includes a number of familiar faces, including James Earl Jones playing a veteran cop who has suffered a serious accident, and Kevin Pollack as a jealous attorney who is trying to find out who is the mysterious playboy that has been entertaining his wife, though Gambon is probably the best of the bunch. The pooch that lives with the detective is a superstar.
It wears an eye-patch and does some absolutely phenomenal things in front of the camera. Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Mick Jackson's Clean Slate arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Olive Films. The release is sourced from an older but quite nice master. Indeed, just about all of the close-ups convey pretty good depth, while fluidity remains pleasing throughout the entire film. The wider panoramic shots revel the mot obvious limitations of the master; delineation in particular could be better and there is also some light black crush that ideally should be eliminated. There are no traces of recent degraining adjustments, but grain exposure can also be improved.
Edge-enhancement is not an issue of concern. Colors are stable, but ideally saturation should be better, and there are even some nuances that are missing. Image stability is excellent. There are no distracting debris, scratches, stains, dirt spots, warped or torn frames to report.
My score is 3.75/5.00. ( Note: This is a Region-A 'locked' Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There is only one standard audio track on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are not provided for the main feature. The audio may not have been recently remastered, but it actually has plenty of oomph and depth is very good.
There are no balance issues to report either. There are a few segments where it seems like the background noise could be managed a bit better, but overall the lossless track seems to serve the film quite well. (I don't have a DVD release of this film to make direct comparisons). Clean Slate turned out to be a much better film than I expected it to be. It is funny, energetic and full of small but very nice surprises that make quite a difference. If you are a fan of Dana Carvey and his work but do not have Clean Slate yet, I'd say that there is a pretty big gap in your collection.
This is the type of feel-good summer film that works even after you have already seen it and know how it ends. Olive Films' Blu-ray release is sourced from a decent master, but the only bonus feature on it is a theatrical trailer.