This article first appeared in the Solutions newsletter. Click here to learn more and sign up. The idea of a “clean slate” is simple. If you’ve been convicted of a nonviolent crime, finished your ...

Three years ago, Sacramento Bee journalists made a commitment through our “Clean Slate” initiative to rectify some of the ongoing harms caused by past reporting. We recognized that as reporters, we ...

Connecticut has erased tens of thousands of low-level criminal convictions over the last few days under it’s Clean Slate law. It's been a long time coming — the erasures were supposed to happen more ...