Panelists say small paperwork errors and active-case flags delay expungement
Speakers described how intake flags and unchecked procedural items can delay or deny expungement—Rachel Wheat Jackson recounted being told to wait a year because an unrelated civil complaint showed as an active case and later receiving a denial over a missed checkbox.
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At a Legal Aid Society panel on expungement, former client Rachel Wheat Jackson described how administrative flags and small procedural omissions delayed her record-clearing process. Jackson said she participated in a 2021 virtual expungement fair but was told to wait another year after an intake showed an unrelated civil complaint as an active case on the court website. "I was like, an active case?" she recalled.
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