Diversion allows a defendant to earn dismissal of a charge by satisfying conditions set by the prosecutor or court, thereby avoiding conviction. Expun...
This report highlights that, no matter its severity, a criminal record carries a heavy burden, leading to decreased employment opportunities, less tha...
This report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Collateral Consequences Resource Center explores the extent to which court debt—such as crim...
In an effort to argue for automatic pardons, this paper out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Connecticut'...
This web-based guide, recipient of the Margaret Taylor Writing Award from the School of Government, explains in one place the principal mechanisms ava...
This bulletin discusses common misconceptions surrounding expungement. It also provides information about the collateral consequences of juvenile reco...
In 2014, Juvenile Law Center published the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of each state’s juvenile record confidentiality and expungement laws ag...
This journal article out of Santa Clara University identifies and estimates the “second chance gap” in Washington's “expungements” to determine the sh...
This journal article from Sonja B. Starr argues that Arizona should adopt an expungement law, ideally joining the “Clean Slate” movement to make expun...