{"id":689,"date":"2023-03-04T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/?p=689"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:38:36","slug":"300000-people-could-have-criminal-records-sealed-under-oregon-clean-slate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/all\/news\/300000-people-could-have-criminal-records-sealed-under-oregon-clean-slate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"300,000 people could have criminal records sealed under Oregon \u2018Clean Slate\u2019 bill (Mar. 4, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“According to the\u00a0ACLU of Oregon<\/a>, about 42% of Oregonians with criminal records were eligible to have their records expunged in 2021 \u2013 about 300,000 people. But less than 10% of those eligible did, said Scott Sharp, an attorney with the\u00a0Metropolitan Public Defender<\/a>\u00a0office in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A forthcoming amendment to the bill would exclude all \u201cperson crimes\u201d from the bill, meaning any crime that involved a victim, such as sex crimes or assault, said Sonja Good Stefani, an attorney with the Metropolitan Public Defender\u2019s office in Portland, after the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that will mitigate the opposition for the bill from any crime survivor groups and will hopefully satisfy the district attorneys,\u201d said Paul Solomon, co-executive director of Sponsors<\/a>, an organization in Lane County that connects formerly incarcerated people with housing, employment, counseling and mentoring, after the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Criminal records pose an \u201cinsurmountable barrier\u201d to jobs and housing, particularly those \u201chistorically most pushed to the margins,\u201d such as immigrants, refugees, rural Oregonians and people with disabilities, Sims said. Filing fees, fingerprinting and other requirements make the process of petitioning to expunge a record even harder, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee didn\u2019t vote on the bill. Committee chair\u00a0Sen. Floyd Prozanski<\/a>, D-Eugene, is expected to gather stakeholders to review the amendment and then bring it back to the committee for a vote, Good Stefani said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“According to the\u00a0ACLU of Oregon, about 42% of Oregonians with criminal records were eligible to have their records expunged in 2021 \u2013 about 300,000 people. But less than 10% of those eligible did, said Scott Sharp, an attorney with the\u00a0Metropolitan Public Defender\u00a0office in Portland. A forthcoming amendment to the bill would exclude all \u201cperson crimes\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paperprisons.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}