Expungement News!

I was excited to read today about how the State of Wisconsin is going to look at its expungement laws and how changing them will affect the lives of those with criminal records.  This may be a great step forward for our state! I hope that decision-makers can keep their eyes on what is truly important - the fact that when one has served his/her time, there should no longer be things standing in the way of him/her moving their lives forward in a productive way. My fear is that decision-makers are going to focus too much on how the courts might get bogged down with this rather than actually think outside the box and simplify the whole process. Crossing my fingers for good news...

More about what Wisconsin is doing can be found here:  https://publicpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/FreshStart_FullReport.pdf
or the press release:
https://publicpolicyforum.org/sites/default/files/FreshStart_MediaRelease.pdf