Carter Wrenn posted on August 07, 2009 10:34
The other night at his Town Hall Meeting State Senator Doug Berger attacked the Association for Home and Hospice Care, saying we opposed his bill to let felons under 21 years old have their records ‘expunged’ or wiped clean – so there would be no record they had ever committed a crime.
We did.
For one reason: If Senator Berger’s bill passed we could hire a felon convicted of, say, theft to go into the home of an elderly citizen to care for them. Senator Berger’s bill meant we would have no way of knowing if a potential employee was a felon.
Like everyone, we hope those who commit crimes will see the error of their ways.
But Senator Berger’s bill to ‘wipe clean’ any record of a felon’s crimes put our patients at risk. We believed then – and believe now – we were prudent to oppose it.
Senator Berger didn’t tell our side of the story at his Town Hall Meeting. I hope you’ll take a moment to look at the video below to see exactly what he said and our explanation:
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