Earlier this year, The Clean Slate Initiative commissioned a survey to learn more about the impacts of Clean Slate laws in Pennsylvania, Utah, and Michigan — three states that have implemented Clean Slate. We aimed to gauge the impact that having a record has had on people’s lives, their awareness of Clean Slate laws, their eligibility for record sealing, and the impacts they have experienced thus far from their state’s Clean Slate law. Learn more in the full report.

California began implementing automatic record relief in July 2022. This report uses individual-level data from the California Department of Justice to estimate the number of Californians who likely benefit from the state's automatic record relief laws, including those that have all of their records relieved and receive a Clean Slate. Learn more in the full report from California Policy Lab.