This post is from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center’s annual report findings on legislation enacted to restore certain rights to individuals who have gone through the criminal law system.
We are pleased to release a new report describing the present landscape of laws in the United States aimed at restoring rights and opportunities after an arrest or conviction. This report, titled The Many Roads to Reintegration, is an update and refresh of our previous national survey, last revised in 2018.
In recent decades, criminal records have become widely available as a result of digitized records systems and a new commerce in background screening and data aggregation.
