Anton Konev:

Experience, Deep Community Involvment, a Strong Belief in Public Service and the Energy to Improve our Neighborhoods!

Anton Konev has been a resident of Albany County his entire adult life and is not new to public service. At the age of 23, Mr. Konev is a senior legislative aid to a senior member of the State Assembly. He has spent his summers and vacation breaks building homes for the poor around the country and working with Kiwanis International on youth leadership programs that train hundreds of young Americans.

Over the past two years, he founded and organized a community crime watch program to help counter the dramatic increase in criminal activity in the Pine Hills Neighborhood, only a few miles from here.  He was prompted to action after being attacked by a gang outside the graduate school of the University at Albany and finding no help from either University or Albany Police Departments.  The crime watch program he started has been cited as a model program by law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Konev’s experience in government is strengthened through his academic credentials.  He is a graduate of the University at Albany and began his Master’s work in the fall of 2005. 

• He has worked intensively on issues of public safety:
• working in the State Assembly to focus attention to growing gang problems
• advocated for additional protections and resources for police officers
• worked on new state law that allows civil confinement of sexual predators and helped organize legislative support to end the statute of limitation on sex crimes
• He also coordinated efforts to pass both the Geriatric Mental Health Act and the Children’s Mental Health Act.
• He has worked to successfully institute new state laws which address rising rates of pediatric asthma.
• His work has also proved successful in helping consumers. 
• He has worked on new laws and efforts that help reduce the cost of auto insurance by limiting automotive insurance company’s access to non-related personal credit information, and legislation that will place restrictions on the interest rates that credit card companies can share consumers.

Mr. Konev has a strong sense of civil duty and believes that our democracy can only be strengthened and protected by strong citizen involvement.  He spent his childhood in Russia and witnessed the harsh treatment of people who wanted to improve their government and community.  He lives his credo and is an active member of his community.