{"id":47762,"date":"2021-03-10T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47762"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:56:19","slug":"clemency-board-remove-5-year-waiting-period-to-restore-civil-rights-to-felons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/clemency-board-remove-5-year-waiting-period-to-restore-civil-rights-to-felons\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemency Board remove 5-year waiting period to restore civil rights to felons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year waiting period for felons to apply to have civil rights restored, including the right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People who have their civil rights restored are three times less likely to re-offend, according to a review by the Florida Parole Commission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition submitted proposed clemency reforms to DeSantis in February 2020. The plan eliminated the five- and seven-year waiting periods and would create a streamlined process for felons eligible under Amendment 4 to have their voting rights restored without an application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics of Florida\u2019s clemency system have pointed to a process that can take years to navigate. When the Clemency Board met in September, the Florida Commission on Offender Review had a backlog of 24,000 felons seeking restoration of rights with or without hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Governor\u2019s plan would require felons to apply to have their rights restored with or without a hearing but would speed up the process by creating an \u201cautomatic\u201d rights restoration for those who have paid all court-ordered financial obligations and can document that they have done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fried, Florida\u2019s only statewide elected Democrat has pushed DeSantis and other Clemency Board members to make it easier for felons to have their rights restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clemency Board removed the minimum five-year waiting period for felons to apply to have civil rights restored, including the right to vote. People who have their civil rights restored are… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}