Pictured provided courtesy of Pixabay By: Margaret Potter, Feature Editor In June 2019, Pennsylvania became the first state to adopt a law that utilizes technology to automatically seal certain criminal records from public view. [1] This law was created with public support to help remove barriers that having a public […]
By: Samantha Cook, Feature Editor “Get a clean slate!” offers the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. “Do You Have a Criminal Record that Might Be Sealed Under Pennsylvania’s New Clean Slate Law?”[1] Studies of the criminal justice system in recent years have addressed the issue of collateral consequences, the concept […]
