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In labor crunch, businesses back efforts to clear workers’ criminal records
Oct 25, 2021
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Clean Slate, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Education, Housing, Jobs, Reentry, State Policy, Western
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Noella Sudbury, who helped lead the drive to pass Utah’s clean slate law in 2019, has been helping to implement it.
“Right now, we have done the work to identify everybody eligible going back as far as court data goes,” Sudbury said, adding that preliminary estimates indicate 200,000 people will initially have at least some of their cases cleared.
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