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Lawmakers, DMV seek clarity that new driver-record category remains sealed
Summary
At a May 8 Judiciary Committee hearing, DMV and legislative counsel agreed the bill language should keep program participants' records sealed and separate from an immediate driving record, but the committee asked the court administrator's office and Judicial Bureau to confirm wording before final action.
On May 8, members of the Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Matt Russo, deputy commissioner for the Department of Motor Vehicles, and Ben Novogrowski of the Office of Legislative Council about draft changes to how the DMV would hold records for people who complete a newly defined program.
Committee members pressed whether the bill’s language that records be kept “separate from the registry maintained by the department” would create a new public or administrative category or simply continue the current practice of treating those files as sealed records separate from an immediate driving record. Matt Russo told the committee, “Right now, it's a sealed record. Yeah. So if an officer were to need to do that. They would need to have a a court order to open the sealed record. It's not on a a…
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