Beyond Confidentiality: Modernizing Criminal Record Clearance Policies in the Digital Age

Brief
Clean Slate
Topics:
Collateral Consequences
Criminal and Juvenile Records
Records Clearance, Expungement, and Sealing
Reentry population:
Adults
Date:
Source:
The Council of State Governments Justice Center

Beyond Confidentiality: Modernizing Criminal Record Clearance Policies in the Digital Age

This brief, from The Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG), discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.

Taken as a whole, they represent a set of best practices that can be leveraged by the many states whose record clearance laws remain tethered, in whole or in part, to outmoded notions about the nature of criminal records and obstacles they present.