Do you think you look like a criminal? Albany County thinks you do.

If passed Albany County's Local Law "G" will require your name, address and physical description (including your height, weight and any identifying marks) to be transmitted to the City of Albany Police Department any time you sell personal articles including secondhand items, jewelry and more. This information will then be provided to the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) at the Albany Crime Analysis Center (ACAC) where it will be analyzed to determine whether or not you look like a criminal.

Should you meet Albany County's definition of a criminal (by having sold too many personal items, or items that are too valuable or maybe just due to a criminal conviction from your childhood) your personal identifying information will then be forwarded in a bulletin to local law enforcement agencies in the name of "intelligence-led policing and criminal intelligence."

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Won't this law help the crime victims?

In the past five years there have been 47,000 victims of property crimes in Albany County. Proponents of Local Law "G" would like you to believe that, by sacrificing your right to privacy, more victims will recover their stolen property and more criminals will be prosecuted. Learn why this isn't true.

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