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Committee reviews H.566 to switch post‑charge diversion expungement to sealing, debates adding municipal offenses
Summary
Legislative counsel and witnesses briefed the Judiciary Committee on H.566, which would change automatic expungement of post‑charge diversion records to automatic sealing and would extend the process to qualifying criminal municipal ordinances; members expressed concerns about prosecutorial discretion and the municipal addition.
Legislative counsel Michelle Child told the Judiciary Committee on Jan. 3 that H.566 would change the statutory treatment of post‑charge diversion records from automatic expungement to automatic sealing while leaving eligibility criteria and the two-year timeline intact. "So you'll see everywhere that it says expungement, it's just switching it to seal," Child said as she walked the panel through drafting changes.
Child said the bill does not affect precharge diversion deletion rules and that indexing and limited-access rules would remain; she flagged one subsection removed because it referred to retroactive expungements…
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