Comments on: State Senate Bill Would Wipe Bad Driving Records Clean

By: amy

amy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:55:51 +0000

also, i don’t know that Peter Goldwasser comment makes sense. an employers can still a person’s driving record. also, the state has the right to file an opposition to the sealing. there still has to be a hearing.
so a violation i supposed to stay on your record for your life, or 99 years. with the internet…get real.
it’s not bad legislation.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:54:08 +0000

I support this bill.
It does EXCLUDE driving under the influence from being sealed.
How long does a driving records have to be? I’m sure insurance companies would LOVE ot have a drivers record be 10 years long…but is it best for society?
3 years is long enough.
The only other thing I can think of is bus drivers or people who drive trucks for a living (cargo, delivery, movers) might have to show 5 years.
Also, there are other bills right now that would allow drug convictions off after 5 years…with certain stipulations met.

I think it’s a good idea.

By: v

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:50:58 +0000

people with drug addictions struggle their whole lives with their records, making it infinitely harder to pull themselves out of dangerous cycles…but people in cars can free themselves of bad reputations? ridiculous.

doesn’t this senator have better things to do?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:56:28 +0000

They used to have walls around cities (including our very own in NYC where Wall Street is now). This was standard across the world. Cities needed to be protected not just from armies, but from criminals because they were the vital hubs of commerce, the cradle of culture and civility. At the gates of cities, armed guards would prevent known criminals from entering.

Now, we proudly would let criminals continue to drive around without any knowledge of their history…this is not progress.

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:24:54 +0000

So which of you is going to run against Schneiderman next year?

By: Eric McClure

Eric McClure — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:29:31 +0000

This is precisely the kind of excellence in governance I’ve come to expect from the New York State Senate.

Keep up the great work, Schneiderman. Viva Espada!

By: ddartley

ddartley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:32:43 +0000

Jeez, how many angry phone calls do I have to make today? First, the DA's office. Next, Stuyvesant Town And Now THIS?!

By: Urbanis

Urbanis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:04:42 +0000

@Marty #5, agreed on this issue. But I have been waiting for marriage equality and rent regulation reform for a *long time* and am frustrated that the morass in the Senate is preventing movement forward on this critical legislation.

By: Urbanis

Urbanis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:40 +0000

Mark Walker, please call Schneiderman’s office (http://www.schneiderman.org/show.php?page=contact). Whenever I’ve sent email to him in the past, I get a bounce with “mailbox full” so I now call instead.

By: Marty Barfowitz

Marty Barfowitz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:47:46 +0000

Wow. All you can really say to this story is: Thank god the New York Senate is so totally whacked out and dysfunctional that it’s not possible for any legislation to go anywhere right now.

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:46:01 +0000

“Streetsblog has a message in with Schneiderman’s office about the reasoning behind the bill.”

Reasoning? We’re talking about the New York State Legislature. Who paid for this? And doesn’t he already have enough money to hire lawyers to keep challengers off the ballot.

One possibility — the insurance industry, which is being forced to charge more to dangerous drivers than they can pay. By making their driving records more similar, some of the cost of their claims could be shifted to those with clean records.

Either that or he is being pushed by those paying higher insurance now.

By: PNG

PNG — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:30:05 +0000

In addition, while the DMV has a policy that after a period of 18 months (I believe) points on a license are removed, enabling an individual to possibly secure a lower insurance rate, the fact that the incident itself that led to the points being issued in the first place does not get removed.

By: Andy B from Jersey

Andy B from Jersey — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:29:22 +0000

Wow!! It seems like the homicidal driver lobby got this guy in their back pocket.

It’s not bad enough for Schneiderman that NY drivers are ranked the most dangerous in two separate recent polls.

They are considered the most aggressive…
http://www.affiniongroupmedia.com/themes/site_themes/affinionassets/releases/autovantage/Road_Rage_09/index.htm

AND the least knowledgeable of the rules of the road.
http://www.nationaldriverstest.com/national-drivers-test/press-release.php

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:16:07 +0000

Un-freakin-believable. And this is my state senator. He'll be getting an email from me shortly. Contact information here. If you participate, please be civil and brief.