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Kansas Legal Services asks committee to fund expungement, driver-license-restoration clinics
Summary
Kansas Legal Services requested renewal of $200,000 for expungement clinics and an additional $100,000 for driver-license restoration clinics, saying SGF support is essential to run statewide clinics and that the programs produce positive workforce effects in rural communities.
Matthew Keenan, executive director of Kansas Legal Services, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that renewed state funding is necessary to sustain a network of expungement clinics and to create driver's-license restoration clinics, which his group says improve employment prospects and reduce barriers to work in rural communities.
Keenan asked the committee to renew $200,000 for expungement clinics and…
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