On January 1, 2023, Connecticut’s “Clean Slate” law went into effect. The Clean Slate law seeks to remove barriers to employment for eligible individuals convicted of certain low-level crimes, who have completed their sentences and have had no further involvement with the criminal justice system since their release. To that end, the law sets forth a process for erasure of conviction records for most misdemeanor convictions and some felony convictions after a specified period.
In general, individuals with misdemeanor convictions will be eligible for record erasure after seven years and individuals with low-level felony convictions will be eligible after ten. According to a recent press release, there will be full or partial erasure in about 44,000 cases involving convictions for cannabis possession. Eligible convictions for other crimes, including most misdemeanors and eligible low-level felonies, will have to wait until the later in 2023 as a result of implementation delays.
Under the Clean Slate law, applicants with all of their convictions erased will be allowed to say that they do not have a criminal record, and further, that they have not been arrested. In addition, all employers are prohibited from asking employees or applicants to disclose any “erased criminal history record information.” That may require some employers to change their employment applications to remove questions about an applicant’s criminal history. If an employer wants to keep such questions on...
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