Clean Slate Laws Offer Fresh Start to 2 Million Black Americans

Your Permanent Record Really Stays With You Unless 'Clean Slate' Legislation Passes ... In the 12 states with programs in place, over 2 million ...

Policy Short: Clean Slate Laws, Pathways to Equity and Justice for ...

... laws, more than 2 million Black adults are eligible to have ... Offering a fresh start to a significant portion of the Black adult ...

Clean Slate Law takes effect Saturday in New York - WROC TV

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York's criminal record-sealing Clean Slate Law begins on November 16. It automatically seals certain records ...

New York's Clean Slate Act seals criminal records for those who stay ...

A new state law wipes criminal records clean for millions of people in New York. Supporters say it will fill jobs and help the economy, ...

The Clean Slate Initiative

8 million Black adults with records would be eligible for full or partial record clearance if all 50 states passed laws meeting The Clean Slate Initiative's ...

'Clean Slate' Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some

Clean slate laws are sweeping the country, offering many of the estimated 70 to 100 million people with a criminal record the chance to have their record ...

Clean slate: Some NY criminal records to be sealed this weekend

It will happen because of a new law known as the Clean Slate Act. Criminal justice reform advocates pushed for the law to help people ...

What They Are Saying: Governor Hochul Signs The Clean Slate Act

This vital law will enable more than 2.3 million New Yorkers with old conviction records to obtain jobs, including career-oriented union jobs in ...

The Impact Of Clean Slate Laws On Criminal Records

These laws, such as the Clean Slate Act of 2023 and the Fresh Start Act, can significantly impact millions of Americans by providing a ...

NY Gives "Clean Slate" To People With Convictions - YouTube

In November, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that could make as many as two million people eligible to have their criminal ...

Clean Slate Initiative | The Audacious Project

More than 30 million Americans are eligible for record clearance. Yet, less than 10% have successfully been able to access it. The Clean Slate Initiative is ...

How the Clean Slate Act will Change the Lives of Formerly ...

The Clean Slate Law represents a step forward in criminal justice reform for millions of New Yorkers. This legislation will allow previously ...

Clean Slate law in PA could help hundreds of thousands of people

“Black people are more likely to be sentenced to felonies than white people. And so, under the first iteration of the Clean Slate law, ...

A Criminal Record Shouldn't Be a Life Sentence to Poverty

Bipartisan momentum for clean slate and fair chance licensing policies—which remove barriers to economic opportunity for people facing the ...

The High Cost of a Fresh Start - National Consumer Law Center

According to the National Legal Aid & Defender Association, millions of Americans cannot afford counsel. ... For petitions for expungement under a new “clean ...

CZI and Over 25 Partners Launch National Bipartisan 'Clean Slate ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — · “Automatic record-clearing is about removing barriers to opportunity and giving people a fair shot at a fresh start,” said ...

'Clean slate' laws would erase criminal records. Do they make ...

How effective are new laws that erase criminal records? Take a look at the racial justice movement taking hold across California and the U.S. that aims to ...

Advancing Clean Slate: The Need for Automatic Record Clearance ...

Community Legal Services teamed up with the Center for American Progress to develop and publish the idea for automating the entire record- ...

Technical and Operational Challenges of Implementing Clean Slate

state law specifies that people convicted of felonies and misdemeanors are ineligible for vacatur ... HIGH COST OF A FRESH START: A STATE-BY-STATE ANALYSIS OF ...

Clean Slate Laws Are Spreading - SHRM

The Clean Slate Act of 2023 would not address state-level needs but would rather provide a pathway to clear federal records, he said. The Fresh ...