Students will help people determine eligibility and prepare paperwork to file petitions to expunge criminal records or obtain orders of nondisclosure of criminal records. Expunging records allows people to legally deny offenses and erases records from criminal histories, mitigating future harm stemming from arrests that do not result in a criminal conviction. Orders of nondisclosure direct police departments and other agencies not to disclose criminal records on background checks, and allow a person to not disclose offenses on applications for housing or employment.
Organization
TEXAS LAW PRO BONO PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT
The Expunction Project is an internal project of the Texas Law Pro Bono Program’s Educational Equity Project.
Project Details
- Project Date
Wednesday October 22
- Project Time
- 5:30-8:30 pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3
- Training
- Students will be trained in the first 30 minutes of the work session.
- Skills used
- Document preparation
- Project location
- Texas Law School
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 12
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Spanish helpful but not neccessary
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu