Employment Fairness Act for Returning Citizens in Prince George’s County, MD
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As of July 1, 2024, Colorado’s Clean Slate Act, or Senate Bill 22-099, is officially in effect. This comes in the wake of several other states that enacted new legislation, giving individuals with criminal records a better chance to fully reintegrate into the workforce and society. Colorado expects to automatically seal more than 100,000 court records under the new law, mostly misdemeanors and petty offenses. Below is a brief timeline relating to the Act:
The Clean Slate Act mandates that the Colorado Judicial Department automatically seals eligible records. The first data scrape, conducted after the law took effect on July 1, 2024, identified over 140,000 cases eligible for sealing. Below is an overview of records that are eligible and ineligible for automatic sealing in most situations.
Eligible crimes:
Ineligible crimes for automatic expungement:
Other exemptions include but are not limited to: traffic offenses, DUI, bodily injury, animal cruelty, identity theft, assault, menacing, indecent exposure, robbery, and certain burglaries.
For details on inclusions and exclusions, refer to the Colorado Clean Slate Act or Senate Bill 22-099 here.
Records of qualifying criminal records will be inaccessible and sealed from public view during the background check process for most employers. If a person whose record is sealed commits a crime within the specified waiting period for expungement, the record will no longer be eligible to be sealed.
As part of the initiative, there are also several requirements the Colorado state government will be required to follow:
The approval of Senate Bill 22-099 will allow eligible convictions to be sealed from public view in Colorado. Similar initiatives have resulted in clean slate laws in other states. These initiatives have had positive outcomes, making it easier for individuals to clear their records and reintegrate into society.
This new law is a positive step towards giving citizens with past criminal convictions another chance, but it may also impact hiring, onboarding, and record retrieval speed as qualifying expungements are processed. Employers operating or hiring in Colorado should review Senate Bill 20-099 and other second chance and clean slate laws as the employment landscape changes and consult their legal counsel.
As other variations of clean slate laws become more common across the United States, Verified Credentials continues to monitor the status of these updates and provide updates as they become available.
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