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Advocates urge simpler expungement and point to a 2020 Kentucky law that shields employers
Summary
Ryan Bowman cited the Kentucky Transformational Employment Program (2020) as providing civil-liability protection for employers hiring from the fair-chance population, and called for automatic expungement and expanded eligibility to reduce cost and access barriers.
Ryan Bowman told listeners that part of scaling second-chance employment requires legal and administrative reforms. He said Kentucky passed the Kentucky Transformational Employment Program in 2020 to provide employers civil-liability protection when hiring from the fair-chance population: "In 2020, we passed the Kentucky Transformational Employment Program, which provides civil liability protection for employers when they're hiring from the fair chance population." Bowman said the state still needs easier, less expensive expungement processes and suggested expanding the range of offenses eligible for record clearing or enabling certain charges to "automatically roll off."
Bowman acknowledged stakeholder concerns and judicial perspectives but urged statutory changes to make record clearing affordable and less administratively onerous so employers and intermediaries can more easily link hires to cleared records and quicker employment outcomes. The transcript does not provide a statutory citation for the 2020 program.
