Expungement

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A Michigan expungement law has helped clear over a million misdemeanor and felony convictions since taking effect. That's according to a new report from the group—Safe and Just Michigan.

A new state law expanded expungement eligibility to include most drug, property and traffic offenses. The Clean Slate GR Expungement Program will be held May 13.

The state one million residents will receive automatic expungement during the program's first day, with 400,000 expected to end the day completely conviction free

After a successful first year, the Clean Slate GR Expungement Program is back next month. The annual program is adding a job fair and is seeking volunteers to assist others with expungement processes.

The Clean Slate Pathway program focuses on arming lower income communities of color, that have been disproportionately impacted within the criminal justice system, with free legal aid to get past mistakes expunged from their criminal records.

Michigan has the most extensive clean slate law in the country, expunging misdemeanors seven years after sentencing and felonies 10 years after sentencing, or when that individual is released from incarceration.