The Johns Hopkins Office of Economic Development and Community Partnerships will host its Fall Expungement Clinic and Resource Fair on Saturday, Oct. 1, in collaboration with Maryland Legal Aid. The event—held at the Turner Concourse (720 Rutland Ave.) on the Johns Hopkins medical campus in East Baltimore—is sponsored by HopkinsLocal HIRE and Fox45 Baltimore.
The positive impact of previous clinics continues to attract volunteer attorneys from the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys of Maryland, Inc., Monumental City Bar Association, and the University of Baltimore Law School who want to support efforts to remove barriers to success for local residents.
The expungement clinics—this will be the fifth one hosted by Johns Hopkins in the past 20 months—are an opportunity for Johns Hopkins to give back to the community, providing Maryland residents with the chance to remove various charges from public inspection in one sitting. This means previous criminal charges will no longer show up on a background check when applying for a job, housing, or education.
"Returning to campus for our fifth expungement clinic is significant," said Alicia Wilson, vice president for economic development at Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System. "We return to the space that introduced the value of this community initiative, with close to 100 clients attending the first event, to learn how we could support them in changing the trajectory of their life."
Wilson introduced the...
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