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 people to not disclose offenses on applications for housing or employment.
Organization
Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Expunction Project is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program.
Project Details
- Project Date
Saturday, March 7
- Project Time
- 10:30am-3pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5.5 hours, including training
- Training
- Tuesday, March 3, 5pm-6pm (Jury Room (CCJ 2.310)) (students who volunteered at an Expunction Intake Session in 2019-2020 are not required to attend this training)
- Skills used
- Client communication; records research; document preparation/review
- Project location
- First United Methodist Church Bastrop, 1208 Water Street, Bastrop, TX
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 8
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish helpful but not necessary
- To Apply
- Register at https://expintake5sp20.eventbrite.com