Day: December 11, 2014

Our friends at the Juvenile Law Center recently released a rigorous national scorecard that grades jurisdictions based on their policies for keeping juvenile records confidential and allowing for sealing or expungement. In sum, the vast majority of jurisdictions fail to protect sensitive information contained in juvenile records, with none earning the maximum five-star rating and the national average coming in at three stars. For the millions of youth arrested each year in America, 95 percent of whom are arrested for nonviolent offenses, juvenile records can follow them into adulthood and create barriers for success. In many jurisdictions, employers and other