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Please send your senators a quick message. You can submit a quick email on all of their web sites. Here is a quick email that could be copied and pasted.
Dear Senator (name),
I would like you to support Senators Paul and Booker S. 2567 REDEEM Act.
I would also like you to consider requesting a change to the individuals that would be eligible for this act. The definition includes those not eligible would be "a sex offense (as that term is defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (42 U.S.C. 16911));" As you most likely know there have been many, many laws associated with sex offenders and many are juveniles or young adults that have been caught up in these laws which I don't believe they were truly intended for. If the definition could be altered to say "a Tier II and Tier III sex offense (as that term is defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (42 U.S.C. 16911));" would allow non-contact, non violent offenders the ability to at least ask under this bill. We have over 750,000 registered on the SOR and those numbers are growing at an increasing large rate. Please be one of those politicians that are willing to apply a small amount of reasonability to laws that have become a political platform without any sustained evidence to support the decrease in crime or the safety of individuals. Thank you.
Dear Senator (name),
I would like you to support Senators Paul and Booker S. 2567 REDEEM Act.
I would also like you to consider requesting a change to the individuals that would be eligible for this act. The definition includes those not eligible would be "a sex offense (as that term is defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (42 U.S.C. 16911));" As you most likely know there have been many, many laws associated with sex offenders and many are juveniles or young adults that have been caught up in these laws which I don't believe they were truly intended for. If the definition could be altered to say "a Tier II and Tier III sex offense (as that term is defined in section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (42 U.S.C. 16911));" would allow non-contact, non violent offenders the ability to at least ask under this bill. We have over 750,000 registered on the SOR and those numbers are growing at an increasing large rate. Please be one of those politicians that are willing to apply a small amount of reasonability to laws that have become a political platform without any sustained evidence to support the decrease in crime or the safety of individuals. Thank you.
Would this federal law apply to state convictions?
I read the Bill and it is not clear. It is primarily for drug offenders.
So unless there is money attached I'm not sure what good this will do.
And even with money some states won't do it.
Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 2567, the "Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act of 2014 (REDEEM Act)." I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
On July 8, 2014, Senator Rand Paul introduced S. 2567, and it was referred to the Judiciary Committee. If enacted, the REDEEM Act would allow criminal records relating to Federal nonviolent offenses to be expunged or sealed. Should S. 2567 or similar legislation come before the full Senate, I will keep your thoughts and views in mind.
So they aren't after trying to incent states to also expunge nonviolent crimes.
Must write IL state and ask them to fashion a similar law.