Connecticut has erased tens of thousands of low-level criminal convictions over the last few days under it’s Clean Slate law. It's been a long time coming — the erasures were supposed to happen more ...
About 150,000 people have benefitted from the legislation so far, but CT doesn't have a way to notify people when convictions ...
This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically ...
SPRINGFIELD — The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final ...