Advocates Push For Automated Criminal-Record Expungement in Mississippi

This piece highlights how Illinois’ Clean Slate Act helps people rebuild workforce participation and strengthens the state’s economy, alongside other reader opinions on politics and culture.

Illinois lawmakers have enacted a new Clean Slate law to automatically seal records for people with non-violent offenses three years after finishing their sentence, expanding access to jobs, housing, and loans beginning in 2029.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed the Clean Slate Act, a bipartisan law to automate the sealing of eligible records for people who have completed their sentences for non-violent offenses, expanding access to employment, housing, and education by removing procedural barriers.