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To be eligible to have a conviction sealed, one must have no pending criminal charges, and have been convicted of not more than one felony, two misdemeanors, or one felony and one misdemeanor, other than multiple offenses which arose from the same act, or that were adjudicated in the same proceeding where the criminal acts occurred within a ...
The other bill, sponsored by senator and former state prosecutor Matthew LaMountain, would make it easier to expunge a felony conviction for a drug crime that is now considered a misdemeanor, as ...
Registered sex offenders have information about their crimes or misdemeanors readily available, and Department of Correctional Services in many states disseminate sex offender to the public, through media such as the Internet. [10] The U.S. Department of Justice maintains a national sex offender database. [11]
Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
For example, educators who don’t earn Social Security in public schools but who work part-time or during the summer in jobs covered by Social Security have “reduced benefits, even though they ...
The other bill, sponsored by senator and former state prosecutor Matthew LaMountain, would make it easier to expunge a felony conviction for a drug crime that is now considered a misdemeanor, as ...
In the common law legal system, an expungement or expunction proceeding, is a type of lawsuit in which an individual who has been arrested for or convicted of a crime seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed or destroyed, making the records nonexistent or unavailable to the general public.
Under the WEP, Social Security benefits are reduced if you receive a pension from work, did not pay into Social Security, and had fewer than 30 years of “substantial” employment or covered ...