Over 46,000 state and federal laws restrict “employment, occupational licenses, and business licenses for people with criminal records,” according to the report. Around 70 percent of employers ...

In response to a lawsuit, the Office of Court Administration is no longer providing in criminal history reports it sells to the public information about criminal cases where the disposition ...

In Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, for example, filing for expungement of a criminal record costs around $500. And lawyers can charge thousands of dollars to do it.