{"id":666,"date":"2023-02-10T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/?p=666"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:38:36","slug":"ct-politics-ct-clean-slate-effort-gets-1-5m-in-lamonts-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/all\/news\/ct-politics-ct-clean-slate-effort-gets-1-5m-in-lamonts-budget-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Politics: CT \u2018Clean Slate\u2019 effort gets $1.5M in Lamont\u2019s budget proposal (Feb. 10, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Gov. Ned Lamont\u2019s proposed budget includes $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan funds for the state\u2019s delayed\u00a0‘clean slate’ effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gov. Ned Lamont speaks Monday at a press conference recognizing the partial implementation of Connecticut’s clean slate law. JADEN EDISON \/ CT MIRROR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Clean slate \u2014 a series of laws expected to go into full effect on Jan. 1 until a delay was announced in early December  \u2014 will erase the criminal records of people with certain low-level convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funds proposed in Lamont\u2019s budget would add to the $5 million that Connecticut has already allocated for technology upgrades needed in clean slate\u2019s full application. The upgrades will allow the state to ‘send and receive data identifying criminal records eligible for erasure’\u00a0and ‘update record systems accordingly.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamont administration officials said during a press conference Wednesday that if the initiative requires more resources, the state would support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed dollars for clean slate\u2019s full implementation come after the state began erasing around 44,000 cannabis-related convictions from people\u2019s records earlier this year, as part of the law that legalized cannabis usage among adults. Once fully implemented, clean slate could help nearly 280,000 people, according to a study<\/a> from The Paper Prisons Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor\u00a0recently committed<\/a>\u00a0to clean slate\u2019s full implementation by the second half of 2023, and officials said Wednesday that they\u2019re ‘working as an executive branch’\u00a0to still make that happen.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Gov. Ned Lamont\u2019s proposed budget includes $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan funds for the state\u2019s delayed\u00a0‘clean slate’ effort. Clean slate \u2014 a series of laws expected to go into full effect on Jan. 1 until a delay was announced in early December  \u2014 will erase the criminal records of people with certain low-level convictions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}