A draft bill would make more crimes eligible to be cleared from a person’s record, but questions remain over who would still have access to the information and under what circumstances.
Proposal nixes expungement, expands sealing of criminal records
Tag: criminal records
Lawmakers putting clamps on records related to juveniles, including drivers
Legislation would prevent police from releasing arrest information about people under the age of age 19 in most instances, including motor vehicle fatalities.
Lawmakers scramble to scale back expungement bill
The legislation passed the Senate unanimously earlier this year but has run into a roadblock from the Scott administration.
New expungement law expands list of offenses that can be scrubbed
House sponsor Maxine Grad calls the legislation an ‘important economic and workforce-development reform’ because it could remove barriers to employment for Vermont’s ex-convicts.
