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

This brief discusses the strategies some states have developed to ensure that clearance remains as effective as possible in the digital age.

Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2023

This report provides a state-by-state accounting of the changes to voting rights for people with felony convictions and measures their impact. Since 1...

A Look Back at the 2024 Second Chance Act Conference

In December 2024, 700 reentry leaders, experts, and Second Chance Act (SCA) grantees from across the country gathered in Philadelphia for the 2024 Sec...
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Beyond Totem and Taboo: Toward a Narrowing of American Criminal Record Exceptionalism

As this article discusses, conviction records activate an increasingly broad range of de jure and de facto disabilities and restrictions that are, the...
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Expungement, Defamation and False Light: Is What Happened before What Really Happened or Is There a Chance for a Second Act in America?

This article, from the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, addresses the problems faced by individuals who have been harmed by the continued availa...
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One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records

This report, from the Center for American Progress, offers a road map for the administration and federal agencies, Congress, states and localities, em...
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Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment

This report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), discusses inaccuracies in FBI records and calls on the FBI to ensure that records are acc...

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