WMU-Cooley Law School recently held an expungement fair on its Lansing campus during which volunteer attorneys and students helped 85 people with paperwork. “Clean Slate” legislation enacted in 2020 made more individuals and offenses eligible for expungement. Attorney and WMU-Cooley graduate Amia Banks (left) of Clark Hill PLC and Michigan State University Law School student Kyle Walters (right) were on hand to help clients have with expungement paperwork. Under the new law, individuals with up to three expungement-eligible felonies and any number of misdemeanors can have their records expunged. Certain traffic violations and first-time operating while intoxicated offenses can be expunged as well along with misdemeanor marijuana convictions that would not have been considered crimes after recreational marijuana was legalized in Michigan. The expungement event was conducted in collaboration State Attorney General Dana Nessel as well as State Reps. Sarah Anthony of Lansing and Kara Hope of Holt along with groups such as Nation Outside, the Capital Area Michigan Works!, and Safe and Just Michigan.
(Photo courtesy of WMU-Cooley Law School)
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