The expungement of criminal records is essential to young people, whether they be youth or young adults coming into communities. Most jobs that you will be applying for, if not all jobs nowadays, will involve a criminal record check. We don't know on the other side how those decisions are made for individuals with criminal records. It's a major barrier to employment.
The cost of getting it expunged has been reduced, and that's a good-news story, but the process of getting it expunged is also difficult and time-consuming. If you were innocent—