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Senate Judiciary advances draft 4.1 of S.12 to expand record-sealing with limited use of concealed criminal history
Summary
The Senate Judiciary committee voted to confer with draft 4.1 of S.12, a multi-year compromise to expand sealing of criminal records while allowing limited use of concealed criminal history in proceedings, and scheduled related steps including further amendment votes and hearings.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to confer with draft 4.1 of S.12, a 40-page bill to expand the number of offenses eligible for criminal-record sealing and to preserve limited uses of concealed criminal-history records in a defendant’s criminal proceeding.
Committee staff described two technical edits on page 26 and a corrected cross-reference; the bill’s language also clarifies that both defense counsel and pro se defendants may use certain concealed criminal-history information in court. "This is just a technical change that, Michelle, mentioned," a committee staff member said, and thanked "Ian" for his work on the draft.
The bill has been under development since 2018 and through negotiations beginning in 2021, and multiple committee members called the current draft a…
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