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In labor crunch, businesses back efforts to clear workers' criminal records

by Nova Safo

Oct 22, 2021

“Clean slate” laws call for updating court databases and creating algorithms to automatically clear records for minor offenses.

Many officials and activists are trying to modernize the record-clearing process for people with criminal records and ease their path to employment.

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