Clean Slate Community of Practice Resources

California

• Calfornia Clean Slate Summary

Key Links and Legislation

• Automatic Record Relief: Penal Code Sections 851.93 and 1203.425
• California Senate Bill No. 731 (2022)
• California Assembly Bill No. 134 (2023)
• California Penal Code § 851.92, Sealing of Records
• California Courts Self-Help Guide: Clean your record
• California Courts – Record Cleaning: Arrest with No Conviction
• Automated Records Relief mandated statistics for 2022 & 2023
• More Than a Million Californians Gain Eligibility to Have Old Conviction Records Sealed After Gov Gavin Newsom Signs Landmark SB 731

Colorado

• Colorado Clean Slate Summary
• Expunge Colorado
• Clean Slate Colorado
• SCAO reports to the legislature:
  • Annual Report Memo – Automatic Conviction Sealing Annual Report February 1, 2024
  • Annual Report March 15, 2024 (detailed tables)
  • Annual Report March 11, 2024 (detailed tables)
  • Automatic Conviction Sealing Report, February 1, 2024 (detailed tables)

Connecticut

• Connecticut Clean Slate Summary
• The Official Clean Slate Connecticut Website
• Clean Slate Connecticut

Delaware

• Delaware Clean Slate Summary
• Delaware Clean Slate Law
• Delaware Courts Expungement
• Delaware Family Court Guide to Expungement of an Adult Record
• Delaware Supreme Court Decision in Osgood v. State, 310 A.3d 415, 419 n.22 (Del. 2023). “… ‘prior or subsequent convictions’ refers only to Delaware convictions, not to out-of-state convictions.”
• Senate Bill No. 111
• Delaware Courts
• Delaware Clean Slate

Kentucky

• Kentucky Clean Slate Summary
• Kentucky Clean Slate website
• Kentucky Department of Information & Technology Services, Research and Statistics: Estimated Class D Felony Conviction Expungement Eligibility: Convictions of Class D Felony Offenses Eligible per Expungement per KRS 431.073 (December 28, 2023)

Maryland

• Maryland Clean Slate Summary
• SB0602: Racial Equity Impact Note, Department of Legislative Services, Criminal Procedure – Automated Expungement, Waiting Periods, and Adverse Actions (Clean Slate Act of 2024)
• Maryland Courts, Expungement (Adult)
• Maryland Courts, Clean Up Your Record

Michigan

• Michigan Clean Slate Summary
• Michigan Attorney General Expungement Web Page
• SADO: Expunging Adult Convictions (white paper)
• City of Detroit: Project Clean Slate
• FAQs on SOS ‘Clean Slate to Drive’ Initiative

Minnesota

• Minnesota Clean Slate Summary
• Minnesota Clean Slate Act (Flyer)
• Minnesota Attorney General: The 2024 Clean Slate Tour
• Minnesota Second Chance Coalition

Missouri

• Missouri Clean Slate Summary
• Missouri Court Expungement Forms
• Clear My Record Missouri

New Jersey

• New Jersey Clean Slate Summary
• Expunging Your Court Record
• ICYMI: Governor Murphy, Attorney General Platkin, and New Jersey State Police Announce a Nearly 70% Reduction in Expungement Backlog
• Bill S3205
• New Jersey Courts: Expunging Your Court Record
• New Jersey Launches Electronic Filing System for Expungements (January 7, 2021)
• Annual Report of the New Jersey Courts: Court Year 2021-2022 [p. 33]
• Annual Report New Jersey Courts: Court Year 2020-2022 [p. 47]
• 2024 Changes to New Jersey’s Expungement Law Simplify the Filing Process (February 28, 2024)

New York

• New York Clean Slate Summary
• Official New York Clean Slate Site
• Division of Criminal Justice Services
• New York Unified Court System
• Clean Slate New York
• Governor Hochul Signs the Clean Slate Bill

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Clean Slate Summary
• OSBI website
• Arnall Family Foundation
• HB 3316

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Clean Slate Summary
• AOPC The Path to Clean Slate (2019)
• 2018 Law
• PSP: Apply for Criminal Record Expungement
• My Clean Slate PA
• The Unified Judicial Systems of Pennsylvania, News & Statistics

Utah

• Utah Clean Slate Summary
• Utah Expungement Report (11/1/2024)
• FY2022 Expungement Data Report – Utah AOC – Sep 19 2022
• Utah HB0352 – Enrolled
• Utah HB3052 – Fiscal Note
• Highlights of Utah BH352 (2024) – Creating an Expungement Working Group
• Report: Utah Code 63M-7-221, Expungement Working Group. Effective May 1, 2024.

Virginia

• Virginia Clean Slate Summary
• Virginia 2024 OES Report – Sealing and Expungement
• 2024 VSP Report – Automated Out of State Records Check
• Code of Virginia Expungement of Police and Court Records
• Sealing of Criminal History Record Information and Court Records
• 2023 VSCC Annual Report – Expungement and Sealing Update
• 2022 VSCC Annual Report – Update on Expungement and Sealing of Criminal Records
• Clean Slate Virginia