Justice And Accountability Center

Expungement program: jac held 12 expungement workshops in 2021, providing advice or representation to 166 individuals, utilizing approximately 20 pro bono attorneys and volunteers to facilitate the workshops. We re-launched our expungement web-based app, which was accessed by over 2,000 people during 2021. The majority of our expungement program participants are low- income, african-american people from overpoliced neighborhoods, who we serve through expungement workshops for individuals from eighteen parishes throughout louisiana. We continued to facilitate the legislative task force on automated expungements, the "clean slate task force,- and while the automated expungement bill we supported did not pass, we continued to build a community based coalition and successfully advocated for a law for more people on misdemeanor probation to have access to record clearing. We joined the fair chance hiring act coalition and successfully advocated for the act's passage, which prohibits employers from considering arrests that did not result in conviction during the hiring process.