Zellnor Myrie: “In the first iteration of the [clean slate] bill, we called…”

“Excellent, excellent, excellent question. So this bill went through, I'm going to charitably say, six iterations. It may have been more than that. And In the first iteration of the [clean slate] bill, we called for expungement. We wanted expungement of the records. And we heard concerns from law enforcement that expungement might pose some public safety risks.” (25:15–25:20)

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