CT 'clean slate law' full implementation faces another delay

Just three months after announcing plans for full implementation of a 2021 law to erase misdemeanors and certain low-level felonies for more than 80,000 people near the start of this year, Connecticut officials have fallen well short of their promise, with only about 13,600 residents having had their records cleared so far. A celebratory gathering in December was intended to mark the long-anticipated conclusion to delays with Connecticut’s “clean slate” initiative, the automatic erasure of tens of thousands of low-level criminal records for a majority of Black and Latino residents...