An outreach program in Marin County is giving people with past criminal convictions an opportunity to seal or expunge their ...

The Clean Slate Program “is not just about expunging records, but it’s a wider safety net,” said Public Defender David Joseph ...

The events aim to provide individuals with past justice system involvement a pathway to sealing or expunging their criminal records.

Marin County's Clean Slate program brings an array of legal services directly to residents in their own neighborhoods, and this month the pop-up event will come to Marin City. On Feb. 26, a Clean ...

While she was scrolling on her phone for ways to get around her criminal record, she stumbled across Minnesota’s new criminal expungement law. The 2023 Clean Slate Act automatically seals criminal ...

Connecticut has erased tens of thousands of low-level criminal convictions over the last few days under it’s Clean Slate law. It's been a long time coming — the erasures were supposed to happen more ...

This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically ...