People with a criminal record in Stow Municipal Court are invited to participate in a Record Sealing and Expungement Clinic ...

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 ...

A new law went into effect Monday allowing some renters in Massachusetts to seal their eviction records, which could give many a fresh start when trying to find housing. “This is a housing ...

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 ...

Virginia’s General Assembly passed the record-sealing law in 2021, and now, an amended version is set to take effect July 1, 2026. Under the new law, a person with a misdemeanor or low-level ...

Sen. Lydia Edwards gives remarks about the new eviction record sealing law outside Eastern Housing Court in Boston on May 5, 2025. A new law went into effect on Monday that allows Massachusetts ...

The Boston Democrat offered an update on the record-sealing law, which launched May 5, shortly before the Senate adopted her amendment (#864) to pump an additional $7.23 million into the Trial ...