Students will review criminal history records and help people determine their eligibility to expunge or obtain orders of nondisclosure of criminal records. Students will explain the expunction and nondisclosure process to eligible individuals. 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
Saturday, February 23
- Project Time
- 9am-4pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 6 hours, including training session; students may sign up for shifts from 9am-1pm or 12pm-4pm
- Training
- Tuesday, February 19, 6pm-8pm (TNH 2.123), makeup training sessions may be scheduled depending on availability; training is encouraged but optional for students who volunteered at an intake session in Fall 2018
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Goodwill Community Center, 1015 Norwood Park Blvd.
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 30
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Register at https://expintake2s19.eventbrite.com