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According to the article's author, national policy with respect to collateral consequences is receiving more attention than it has in decades. This article outlines and explains some of the reasons for the new focus. The legal system is beginning to recognize that for many people convicted of crime, the greatest ...

This chart summarizes sex offender registration statutes in the U.S. as codified in each jurisdiction as of August 2018.

This webinar explores how technology has influenced criminal record clearance processes and improved service delivery around the country. The presentation includes an overview of expungement technologies, case studies of expungement software in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a discussion about the possible future of expungement with the Clean Slate model. This ...

The presenters of this webinar discuss overcoming the challenges to effective community engagement and explore ways to increase the number of juvenile record clearances.

This article diagnoses a phenomenon, “criminal employment law,” which exists at the nexus of employment law and the criminal justice system. According to the author, courts and legislatures discourage employers from hiring workers with criminal records and encourage employers to discipline workers for non-work-related criminal misconduct. In analyzing this phenomenon, ...

Part I of this article explains that serious consequences may fall on people convicted of federal misdemeanors.These include deportation, sex offender or other criminal registration, loss of civil rights, and penalties flowing from the permanent change of legal status caused by criminal conviction. Misdemeanor convictions and criminal records may also ...

This article’s goal is two-fold: First, it contextualizes judicial responsibility for misdemeanor sentencing in the realities of the lower criminal courts, where a number of structural and systemic barriers — including violations of the right to counsel and pressures on judges to move cases along rapidly — affect but do ...

This Article addresses that myth and adds to both the juvenile justice and collateral consequences literature in four ways. First, The Juvenile Record Myth illuminates the variety of ways states treat juvenile records — revealing that state confidentiality, sealing, and expungement provisions often provide far less protection than those terms suggest. ...