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“ Update to ‘News You Can Use: Research Roundup for Re-Entry Advocates’” by the CAP Poverty Team, Kenny Lo, and Akua Amaning.“ Advancing Clean Slate: The Need for Automatic Record Clearance During the Coronavirus Pandemic” by Akua Amaning.“ A Criminal Record Shouldn’t Be a Life Sentence to Poverty” by Rebecca Vallas, Sharon Dietrich, and Beth Avery.House of Representatives and was introduced in December 2020 in the U.S. Bipartisan legislation to automatically clear certain federal records has also been introduced in the U.S. States as diverse as Washington, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Delaware have introduced or passed measures that move toward automated record-clearing, with momentum currently building in many more for state 2021 legislative sessions-including in New York, Oregon, and Texas-where clean slate campaigns launched earlier this year. New Jersey enacted a task force to shape an automated record clearance program for the state, and California has adopted a prospective-only automated record clearance program. Utah became the second state to enact a clean slate automated record clearance law in March 2019, and Michigan followed suit in October 2020 with what is now the most expansive automated record clearance law in the United States.
In the first year since the law took effect in June 2019, Pennsylvania sealed more than 35 million cases, helping more than 1 million Pennsylvanians move on with their lives. Pennsylvania became the first state to automate criminal record-clearing with the 2018 bipartisan Clean Slate Act. Lamont’s signature, Connecticut will join a growing number of states that have embraced automated record-clearing laws as the clean slate model continues to gain traction in red, blue, and purple states alike. Lamont has long been a champion of bringing clean slate to Connecticut, and we urge him to sign this bill into law. The Center for American Progress applauds the Connecticut Legislature for taking this critically important step to ensure that Connecticut residents with records are no longer relegated to the ranks of a permanent underclass. The success of Connecticut’s tremendous clean slate package is a testament to years of tireless work by a remarkable coalition led by CONECT, in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut. By removing government-created barriers to work for Connecticut residents with records, this legislation will not only put economic opportunity within reach for huge numbers of individuals and families facing the stigma of a record, but it will also help the state achieve a fuller and more equitable recovery on the other side of the pandemic. I could not be more thrilled to see the Connecticut Legislature pave the way for hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents to finally be liberated from the perpetual punishment and economic marginalization that accompany a criminal record. As a result, research finds that fewer than 10 percent of eligible individuals successfully get their records cleared. While record-clearing remedies such as expungement and sealing offer powerful tools to remove barriers to jobs, housing, and educational opportunities, it can be incredibly difficult in practice to get a record cleared due to the cost and complexity of petition-based record-clearing processes.
In the digital era, with 9 in 10 employers, 4 in 5 landlords, and 3 in 5 colleges and universities now using background checks to screen applicants, a criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty that no judge ever handed down. Following the bill’s passage, Rebecca Vallas, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and one of the co-originators of the clean slate policy model, released the following statement: It would also join Michigan as the second state to automatically clear qualifying felonies as well as misdemeanors, removing barriers to employment, housing, and education for the 1 in 3 Connecticut residents with a criminal record. With the governor’s signature, Connecticut is poised to become the fifth state to enact clean slate automated record-clearing legislation.
Ned Lamont’s (D) desk to be signed into law. Last week, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly for final passage of “clean slate” automated record-clearing legislation, sending the bill to Gov.
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