Jan. 21—Phillip Barnhill of Groton says he is not asking for a break or even sympathy. He is asking for some consideration. The 54-year-old, once labeled a career criminal by state prosecutors because ...

A free legal Clean Slate Clinic for county residents seeking criminal record expungement, felony reduction, and arrest record sealing will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 at The Colleges of Law ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New Yorkers with criminal histories who have stayed out of trouble will have their records sealed beginning this weekend. It will happen because of a new law known as the Clean ...

Convicted criminals in New York will now have their records sealed after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law the "Clean State Act" on Thursday. The controversial proposal would seal old criminal records ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- More than two million criminal records will be sealed after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed long-sought Clean Slate legislation. Hochul signed the Clean Slate Act, a landmark piece of ...

Imagine if a government database entry was keeping you out of a job, a home or from going to school. This is the reality for roughly 1 in 3 Americans, for whom a long-ago interaction with police may ...

LEAST SOME OF THEIR RECORDS WIPED CLEAN. PAUL: WE ARE AT THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE WHERE CRIMINAL CASE FILES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION. OR NOT. LEGAL EXPERTS TELL ME THAT COURT ...

One of the most obvious truths of modern government is that it tends to grow exponentially. The number of bureaucrats it employs increases. The amount it taxes it spends goes up. Its reach into every ...

BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – Break the law and you pay the price, but there’s a way that you can wipe your record clean. It’s called expungement, and local attorneys say it is “accessible and attainable.” ...

Last year, we championed a bill that would have created a system of automatic expungements of criminal records for people who have served their sentence and then remained crime-free. It passed the ...

The sooner hard-working citizens can fully participate in the economy, the better it will be for their families, their hometowns, and their neighbors— and for the employers, like Ford Motor Co, who we ...