The Clean Slate Screening Project: A Case Study
Legal services providers are frequently presented with the challenge of communicating complicated and evolving legal advice to large numbers of…
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The Heavy Price for Restoring One’s Name: Court Debt Bars Record Clearing
Contact with the criminal legal system comes with a price tag that a growing number of Americans cannot afford to…
Remedies for 100 Million People with Records
Expungements: Good or Bad? Discuss. Two quite different perspectives on the value of record clearing (which I will refer to…
Americans of All Political Views Agree: Record Clearing Should Be Expanded
The following post was written by CLS Litigation Director Sharon Dietrich. I sometimes am asked for authority for the proposition…
Ants Under the Refrigerator
You probably are wondering, “What is she talking about, with a subject line like that?” The answer to your thought…
“Harnessing Technology” Conference Launches National Clean Slate Campaign
In 2018, Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania signed the Clean Slate Act. With its signing, Pennsylvania became the first state
Reporting Expunged or Sealed Cases in Commercial Background Checks Violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (the FCRA) governs the accuracy of criminal background checks prepared by commercial screeners. While there…
