But for many Floridians, there’s hope. Thanks to Florida’s expungement and record sealing laws, thousands of residents may qualify to have their criminal records cleared or hidden from public ...

The Second Chance Amendment Act, D.C.’s new expungement and record-sealing law, went into effect on March 1, 2025. 1 This Act provides significant improvements, as D.C.’s prior regime was ...

The bill would expand expungement eligibility to the most serious crimes but only for those who committed the act as a minor and meet a very narrow set of conditions, like having no criminal ...

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, ...

In an age where every aspect of our lives can leave a digital imprint, past mistakes are often not as easy to leave behind as one might hope. For many individuals in Miami, an old arrest or ...

Virginia issues about 4,000 expungement orders each year. Automatic sealing systems mean the person doesn’t have to take any action, or spend money, and it expands access to the service.

The Illinois House passed a monumental plan Friday to automatically seal records for people convicted of nonviolent felonies.

"There is a distinction between sealing and expungement, and we take no issue whatsoever with expungement," he said. Uriel Garcia covers public-safety issues in Arizona. Reach him at uriel.garcia ...

In a groundbreaking initiative and first-of-its-kind professional sports partnership, the Philadelphia Flyers have teamed up with Athlon, the company behind the Rallee app, to create and launch a ...

Sorting through some Philadelphia Flyers mailbag questions while we await the announcement of their next head coach. (Some questions have been lightly edited for style and clarity.) The Flyers ...