Do you have an old criminal record that is holding you back? A free Clean Slate and Pardons Clinic will be held Friday from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a church in downtown New Haven, Gov. Ned Lamont symbolically 'erases' the records of 81,000 people whose criminal convictions ...

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (7News) — A major shift is coming to Virginia’s criminal justice system with the state’s new Clean Slate Law, aimed at giving thousands of residents a second chance by sealing certain ...

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 ...

Those who believe in second chances are celebrating a milestone in Connecticut. More than 150,000 people have had their arrest and conviction records erased by the state’s Clean Slate Law over the ...

Nearly 2.2 million people in Illinois might see eligible criminal records sealed following passage of the ‘Clean Slate’ Act during the legislative veto session. The bill would require law enforcement ...