Expungement Summit
Candidacy for employment, school enrolment or looking for a place to live must not be jeopardized by a criminal record.
Saturday, Springfield Expungement Summit 2008, from 9 am to 3 pm at South East High School, 2300 E. Ash St. Participants will learn how to make arrests and convictions of some of their records.
“We found that many people who, in the next, which does not have the resources necessary for expungement, or do not know how to fill out the paperwork, or (public) housing was refused because the stuff in their balance sheets , “Said Joy Burgess Sang County Circuit Amon / woman in the office.
“We thought,” What can we do to get help from the community Outreach to inform people better? ”
The circuit / woman in the office and a number of institutions of the Community held the first municipal elections expungement summit three years ago. More than 200 people attended.
A number of experts in Illinois expungement law on the hand, said Burgess.
Representatives of interconnection and women in the office will explain how you can start the application process, police officers to answer questions regarding the records of criminal history and representatives of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board is the executive and softness State pardoned.
In addition met with representatives of the Illinois Bureau of Defender of the Appellate Body, an assistant state and local lawyer rights lawyer Adam Giganti will be available to answer questions.
Other agencies will also be represented, for more information on voter registration, social security, etc.
In order to prepare the necessary documents in a file expungement, a person must bring its criminal records and other documents in the context of an arrest.
Burgess is expected that the following process with a minimum cost of $ 120 and lasts at least 30 days.
“It has been an increase (in expungement applications). I think one reason for the increase is due to the way things are going really strengthened if people try to get a job,” she said.
“It can be used if someone has been arrested, they always do, but now they are rejected, that the arrest record even though it has never”.
Saturday event is co-sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Illinois Afro-American Family Commission, the lords of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the National Association for the Advancement of people of color branch Springfield, Springfield of the Conference Ministerial Alliance, Springfield Urban League and others.
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