California

New Research: Impacts of California's Clean Slate Law
California’s Clean Slate law is a significant development in the national effort to provide automated record relief for millions of people who have records in America. Learn more in this blog post from CSI and California Policy Lab.

California becomes the eighth state to enact a Clean Slate law
In September 2022, California became the eighth state to enact a Clean Slate law when Governor Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill 731 (SB 731). The bill expands automatic and petition-based record sealing for a range of offenses, which opens the door for record relief for over a million people.
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