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
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
Monday, February 13
- Project Time
- 5:30pm-8:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5 hours, including training session
- Training
- Monday, February 6, 5pm-7pm (TNH 2.124) OR Friday, February 10, 11am-12:50pm (TNH 2.124); attendance for returning intake volunteers is recommended as a refresher, but not required
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Travis County Law Library, 314 W. 11th Street
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 30
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu; please indicate which training session you plan to attend and if you are a returning volunteer.