'This affects everyone' | Local law students help people seeking employment expunge criminal records
Thursday, a Louisville café, Sis Got Tea, hosted an expungement clinic where law students helped guide people seeking help with their record.
Thursday, a Louisville café, Sis Got Tea, hosted an expungement clinic where law students helped guide people seeking help with their record.
The unanimous ruling allows indigent people who were convicted of traffic, misdemeanor and some non-violent felony cases to have them cleaned from their record without paying a $50 filing fee and $250 expungement cost.
Nearly 800 people had their records cleared at the league's last clinic, which stayed open late to meet a high demand.
It would "ban the box" that job applicants have to check on an application if they've ever been convicted of a crime.