The Second Chance Amendment Act, D.C.’s new expungement and record-sealing law, went into effect on March 1, 2025.1 This Act ...

have ruled that there’s “sufficient public interest in having certain records sealed” because of their negative impact on people. The General Assembly passed the 2021 sealing law as part of ...

The law, set to go into effect on July 1 after ... on a case-by-case basis — the government’s interest in sealing records against the public’s right to know. “A state statute cannot ...

Records are public even if tenants won a case or reached an agreement with a landlord, advocates said. Eviction sealing is not an automatic process under the new law. Tenants who win their case ...