If you have an old criminal record, today you can finally get a Clean Slate in PA

[SummerMadness]

If you have an old criminal record, today you can finally get a Clean Slate in PA

For more than a decade, Tyeisha, 32, of Norristown, has been dogged by her criminal record — the last remaining scars from when a coworker attacked her on the job and both women were charged with assault.

Now, she’ll finally have the chance to close that chapter, thanks to Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate law, which passed out of the General Assembly in June.

The first phase of the law — allowing for sealing of offenses including certain misdemeanors, such as simple assault, for those who’ve stayed out of trouble for at least a decade — went into effect Wednesday. The next phase, which will automatically seal some lower-level criminal records, is to begin June 28.

Sharon Dietrich, litigation director at Community Legal Services, said she’s been flooded with phone calls from people desperate for this relief.

 

[Dave-W]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[Zoii]

If you have an old criminal record, today you can finally get a Clean Slate in PA

This has been in effect in Australia since 1991 and has been working quite well.

 

[miamited]

Hi zoii,

I'm always impressed these days when I see how some other nations are actually better at governance than us prideful and arrogant Americans. Nations that have better operations to manage health care. Nations that understand the sense in controlling firearms access of its citizens. And now, apparently I can point to a nation that handles the pain and punishment of minor criminal offenses better than we do.

God bless you Aussies,
In Christ, ted

 

[grasping the after wind]

If you have an old criminal record, today you can finally get a Clean Slate in PA

Sounds like a good idea. One misstep should not follow you for eternity.