Law students will meet with University of Texas students seeking to expunge Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission-related criminal records. TABC offenses include Minor in Possession, Minor in Consumption, and Misrepresentation of Age by a Minor. Student volunteers will put together expunction petitions and prepare applicants for the process of filing and obtaining a hearing on their petitions. Expunging records allows people to legally deny offenses and erases records from criminal histories, mitigating future harm stemming from arrests. Note: Students will work in pairs. Each pair will have at least one J.D. student.
Organization
Criminal Justice, Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Expunction Project is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program.
Project Details
- Project Date
Tuesday, April 23
- Project Time
- 4pm-8pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 4 hours, including training
- Training
- Volunteers will be trained in the first 30 minutes of the event
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- TNH 2.139
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 12
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- To Apply
- Register at https://exptabcsp19.eventbrite.com