Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2015
First Page
321
Abstract
"Getting a Second Chance After a Criminal Record.", "Want to Expunge Your Record?', "South Carolina Debating If It Should be Easier to Expunge a Brush with the Law." "Making a Fresh Start in Little Village." These are only some of the headlines of newspaper articles and television segments that came up in a Google Alert for "expungement" during one typical week in late 2014. The same week, in Cincinnati, Ohio, city council members backed expungement of low-level marijuana convictions. Expungement news that week was not limited to the United States. In Jamaica, the legislature passed a bill that allows expungement of some convictions records, including minor marijuana offenses, calling it "the beginning of the end for persecution."
Recommended Citation
Jenny Roberts,
Expunging America's Rap Sheet in the Information Age,
Wisconsin Law Review
321
(2015).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/628
