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Senate Judiciary reviews draft to let 18–21-year-olds petition to seal records; law-enforcement access undecided
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee examined draft 2.2 of a committee amendment to Senate Bill 12 that would let people who were 18–21 at the time of a qualifying offense petition to seal records 30 days after sentence completion, with exclusions for registrable offenses and unresolved choices on how law enforcement would access sealed records.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard a presentation on a committee amendment to Senate Bill 12 that would allow people who were 18 to 21 at the time they committed a qualifying crime to petition a court to seal criminal records 30 days after completion of sentence, with an exception for offenses requiring registration on an offender registry.
Michelle Town, legislative counsel in the Office of Legislative Counsel, told the committee members they should have “draft 2.2 of the committee amendment” and walked the panel through changes from the prior draft, including a provision on registrable offenses and a reorganization of the petitioning and sealing language. Town told the committee that offenses triggering registration with the offender registry “are not eligible for sealing in the proposal.”
The amendment would create an expedited sealing pathway for 18–21-year-olds: after 30 days from completion of sentence a person could petition to seal the criminal record relating to the…
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