Hadasha Foxx has wanted to be a nurse for more than a decade, but found out last year that a mistake she made years ago would hold her back from her dream. "It was devastating," said Foxx, 30, who ...

When a Denton resident appeared before the Denton City Council in 2022 to talk about his difficulties finding stable employment, he was there as one of the 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. with criminal ...

(Officials say a backlog of expungement requests is driven by marijuana legalization and expanded opportunities to annul past offenses. Getty Images) A Senate panel approved legislation Monday that ...

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Touting it as a first-in-the-nation initiative, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office launched a prosecutor-led application process for people looking to have their juvenile criminal records ...

Protesters hold signs and wave at cars along El Camino Real in Palo Alto on June 14, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. San Mateo County’s Private Defender Program, which appoints attorneys to assist ...

There is no cost associated with having a criminal record expunged. A criminal record does not necessarily need to follow someone for the rest of their lives. For some people, having the record ...

Millions of Americans with criminal records face barriers to employment, housing, and other opportunities, forming a "waiting workforce." JPMorganChase & Co. and Legal Aid of Southeast and Central ...