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.
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
Tuesday, March 8
- Project Time
- 5:00pm-8:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 3.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Students will be trained in the first 30 minutes of the work session
- Skills used
- Document preparation/review
- Project location
- Sheffield-Massey Room (TNH 2.111)
- Address
- 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 20
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu;