Students will use court records and information provided at expunction intake clinics to draft petitions and orders for expunction or 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.
Work sessions allow you to work through court records and prepare petitions for expunction and nondisclosure. The work session will be held on Zoom to promote social distancing!
Organization
Educational Equity Project, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Expunction Project is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program’s Educational Equity Project.
Project Details
- Project Date
Thursday, April 16
- Project Time
- 4:00 – 7:30 PM
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Volunteers will be trained in the first 30 minutes of the work session.
- Skills used
- Document preparation/review
- Project location
- Zoom
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 15
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://expwork3sp20.eventbrite.com