Last name of “Smith” leads to teacher being wrongly ID’d
Excerpted from an ABC 7 News Story by Stephanie Sierra and Renee Koury It was a very ”unwelcome to California” for a new schoolteacher in San Jose. She and her family […]
To-be-expunged crime records barred from background checks
Excerpted from a New Jersey Monitor article by Nikita Biryouov A Senate panel approved legislation Monday that would bar the New Jersey State Police from releasing information about to-be-expunged crimes in […]
My criminal record somehow vanished
Excerpted from an article in The Atlantic by Mark O’Brien Sixteen years ago, during my last semester of law school, I caused a drunk-driving crash that killed my girlfriend. I […]
A Clean Slate—to What Effect?
Excerpted from a City Journal Blog by Robert VerBruggen In recent years, legislators and advocates have repeatedly sought to make people with criminal records more employable, including by wiping out […]