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Automatic Re-Enrollment

DOE must automatically register a student returning from detention or placement at their pre-arrest community school within 2 school days of discharge. Parents can advocate for transfer through DOE borough enrollment office. Student might have to be transferred due to an Order of Protection.

Students have the right to be enrolled at a DOE school when they go to a Family Welcome Center.

If a student returns during the same academic year, they have a right to be re-enrolled at that school.

If a family and the DOE have decided on transfer, the DOE must transfer student within 5 days of appearance at DOE enrollment office.

Family Welcome Center

DOE must provide records from Passages or East River to new school. If student has an IEP, DOE must provide appropriate placement and contact info to aid in creating a new IEP.

Paperwork

Voting with a Record

ACLU of NY Guide to Voting with a Misdemeanor, Felony, on probation, and Parole.

Can vote while in jail for a misdemeanor or while on probation.

New Yorkers can vote after a felony conviction upon release from prison.

NYC Commission on Human Rights

Guide to working with a record.

NY Law Help Guide to Discrimination based on Record.

Employer CANNOT completely prohibit hiring those with criminal records. Employer CAN consider criminal record as part of job application.

Working with a Record

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