A new law that will automatically expunge the criminal records of up to 500,000 Minnesotans took effect Jan. 1. But it will take more time before people get the clean slate they were hoping for. State ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

New Yorkers with criminal convictions would have those records shielded from public view under a renewed state bill meant to open job and housing opportunities for them. The Clean Slate Act would ...

Massachusetts is lagging and should join other states that have enacted “clean slate” automated record-sealing laws (“Healey’s pot pardon should be just the start of reform,” Editorial, March 15).