expungement

Formerly-incarcerated advocates say the process to clear criminal records is cost and time-prohibitive. A bill in the Kentucky legislature aims to automate the process.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is wading into a precedent-setting legal battle to determine if the fees associated with expunging a criminal…

More Kentuckians with low-level felony convictions would be able to clear their criminal records after a waiting period under a bill that passed out of a…

The majority whip of the state Senate says he wants to expand Kentucky’s felony expungement law to allow people convicted of selling small amounts of…

More than eight hundred Kentuckians have cleared their records under state senator Whitney Westerfield’s expungement law passed last year.Some sixty-one…

A new law meant to give some felons a second chance by expunging their criminal records is causing confusion and disagreement.The law allows people…

Kentucky Chief Justice John Minton Jr. says the number of expungement requests have doubled since a new law went into effect allowing some convicted…

The convicted felon whose emotional testimony convinced a Republican western Kentucky lawmaker to change his mind and led to the adoption of an…

Kentuckians with certain felony convictions can now begin the process of having such Class D offenses expunged. July 15th marks the first effective day of…

Gov. Matt Bevin has signed a bill that will allow some Class D felonies to be cleared from criminal records five years after a sentence is completed.The…