People v. Havern

Is a person with no prior criminal record, who is photographed and fingerprinted upon being charged with a felony, and who is later adjudged to be a youthful offender, entitled to the return and destruction of his fingerprints and photographs upon demanding same from the State Police and the Department of Correction? The entire subject of criminal identification, records and statistics is covered by sections 615 through 619 of the Correction Law which sections were enacted by section 2 of chapter 881 of the Laws of 1958, *431effective January 1, 1959 which repealed former sections 615 through 623…