The latest legal news and analysis on expungement laws.
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An Illinois appellate court ruled that a retail-theft record resolved by court supervision cannot be expunged until five years after supervision ends, not two.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed SB 1421 on July 8, 2026, creating an automatic expungement system for eligible drug convictions. Here's how it works.
Illinois HB 1836 takes effect June 30, 2026, cutting misdemeanor sealing waits from 3 to 2 years. Automatic sealing begins January 2029. What changes now.
Virginia's Clean Slate law begins July 1, 2026, automatically sealing certain misdemeanors after seven clean years and allowing petitions to seal more records, with no filing fees.
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer said on June 1, 2026 the first automated Clean Slate batch cleared over 64,000 eligible low-level cases from public background checks.