Would you want an employee who slashed another womans face with a Bacardi rum bottle? I sure wouldn't, no matter when it happened. Long-ago assault haunts OCC graduation speaker, now city educator. Should NY seal records of old crimes? Melinda Agnew is 45 years old, a mother of three and pursuing a master’s degree in social and public policy. She’s a tenured Syracuse teacher’s assistant and, in 2014, delivered Onondaga Community College’s Commencement address. She’s no longer the angry, drunken 23-year-old who, in 1999, attacked another woman with a Bacardi rum bottle, leaving lasting facial damage. Agnew spent three years on probation, took drug rehabilitation though Syracuse Behavioral Health (now Helio) and vows never to drink again. But her criminal record — misdemeanor assault — still haunts her: she says she’s been denied housing by several large Syracuse landlords ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ould-ny-seal-records-of-old-crimes/ar-AAKRr8z Find in Internet Archives [google]Long-ago assault haunts OCC graduation speaker, now city educator. Should NY seal records of old crimes?[/google]
