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Committee hears proposals to expand automatic eviction‑record sealing; advocates push for automatic and shorter time frames
Summary
Senate Bill 142 would expand eviction‑record sealing (automatic court sealing for qualifying cases and time‑based sealing). Tenants' advocates, legal clinics and social‑service groups urged broader automatic sealing and shorter timelines; title industry representatives flagged technical chain‑of‑title concerns.
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard extended testimony on Senate Bill 142, which would expand the state’s eviction‑record sealing process by ordering automatic sealing in qualifying cases and creating a time limit for older eviction records.
David Pruitt of Notre Dame Law School’s Eviction Clinic told the committee the bill improves on a 2022 statute by sealing cases where the tenant prevailed or where a judgment was paid, and by setting a seven‑year window after which qualifying eviction records would be expunged. “This bill recognizes that at some point the benefit of having an eviction on someone’s record is outweighed by the harm,” he…
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