The idea of “Clean Slate” laws is to help streamline the complicated legal process of clearing and sealing old criminal ...

CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed after Gov. JB Pritzker on Jan. 16 signed the long-debated ‘Clean Slate’ Act.

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 ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Clean Slate Act into law Friday, which will automatically seal criminal records of nonviolent offenders. House Bill 1836 takes crimes that can be ...

The Clean Slate Initiative, a national bipartisan advocacy organization, advocates for the passage and implementation of automated record-sealing laws designed to transfer the administrative burden of ...

At a March 2024 rally at the Connecticut capitol building, an advocate holds a shirt that says "pass clean slate" with pass crossed out an replaced with "enforce." Credit: Molly Ingram / WSHU ...

As faith leaders and directly affected Illinoisans, we believe in the sacred right of every person to work, provide for their family and live with dignity. In religious terms, we would say that we ...

The city celebrated more than 15,000 criminal convictions that have been expunged from Detroit's records since 2016. Thousands of people in Michigan became eligible for expungement after the Clean ...

SPRINGFIELD — Criminal justice reform advocates say legislation to seal criminal records for certain nonviolent crimes, which passed Friday in the House, would unlock economic opportunity for ...

State Sen. Cordell Cleare hosted a “Clean Slate Clinic” event in Central Harlem on Friday, offering resources to formerly incarcerated community residents and featuring a lineup of criminal justice ...

Illinois will begin a process to automatically seal criminal records for millions of adults in the state, after Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ‘Clean Slate’ Act on Friday. Critics objected to the ...