{"id":9148,"date":"2022-10-26T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9148"},"modified":"2022-10-26T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:11:26","slug":"california-could-give-more-than-a-million-people-with-criminal-records-a-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9148","title":{"rendered":"California could give more than a million people with criminal records a fresh start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ccresourcecenter.org\/the-many-roads-to-reintegration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Most states<\/a>&nbsp;have laws allowing for some form of criminal record clearing. Eligible individuals \u2014 generally those with no convictions, or who were convicted of a low-level offense \u2014 are typically required to petition a judge or state agency for clearance. Most don\u2019t, whether because ofthe cost, complexity, or simply from lack of information. One University of Michigan study&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/20\/opinion\/expunge-criminal-records.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in 2019<\/a>&nbsp;found over 90 percent of those eligible didn\u2019t apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, the \u201cClean Slate\u201d movement was born \u2014 a recentpush by criminal justice reformers to automatically clear,orseal from public view, records for eligible offenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23340644\/clean-slate-automated-criminal-record-clearing-felonies-california\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23340644\/clean-slate-automated-criminal-record-clearing-felonies-california<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most states have laws allowing for some form of criminal record clearing. Eligible individuals \u2014 generally those with no convictions, or who were convicted of a low-level offense \u2014 are typically required to petition a judge or state agency for clearance. Most don\u2019t, whether because of the cost, complexity, or simply from lack of information. One University of Michigan study published in 2019 found over 90 percent of those eligible didn\u2019t apply.<br \/>\nAs a result, the \u201cClean Slate\u201d movement was born \u2014 a recent push by criminal justice reformers to automatically clear, or seal from public view, records for eligible offenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[304,280],"class_list":["post-9148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-california","tag-criminal-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}