Clean Slate Community of Practice Resources
General Resources
- SEARCH Research
- Clean Slate Initiative
- Collateral Consequences Resource Center
- Code for America – The Advocate’s Guide to Automatic Records Clearance
- National Center for State Courts – Record Relief Resource Center
- National Conference of State Legislatures – Criminal Records and Reentry Toolkit
- Funding is available from National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) and NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) to support state work.
Resources By State
California
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
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
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
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
Pennsylvania
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
Research
- Prescott, J.J. and Sonja B. Starr. “The Power of a Clean Slate.” Regulation 43, no. 2 (2020): 28-34.
- Santa Clara University Record Clearance Research Study
- California Policy Lab, “Who Benefits from Automatic Relief in California?”
- Clean Slate Initiative, “The Impacts of Clean Slate Laws in Pennsylvania, Utah, and Michigan“