A bill to extend expungement eligibility to more people is moving forward in the Wisconsin Assembly.

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A bipartisan group of legislators is resurrecting a bill that would allow more convicts to have their criminal records expunged.

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When the Madison barber and business owner Brian Britt, 42, stepped up to a folding table in the entryway of the Urban League of Greater Madison, he had a single goal in his mind: Wipe from his record the decades-old criminal convictions he says are holding him back.

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A committee of state lawmakers recently moved forward a piece of legislation aimed at expanding the state’s expungement laws.

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A committee recently gave its blessing to proposed legislation that would expand Wisconsin’s expungement law.

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A bill that would make changes to Wisconsin’s expungement law will go before a panel of Wisconsin lawmakers this week for a vote.

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A group of lawmakers is trying again to pass legislation that would allow convicts to ask judges to expunge their criminal records.

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State Assembly lawmakers have given preliminary approval to two bills that would overhaul the state’s process that allows young offenders to wipe their criminal histories clean.

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More than a dozen people, including lawyers, a nun, an electrician and a high school counselor lined up Thursday in support of a bill that would expand the state’s rules that allow certain people to seek the elimination of their criminal history.

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Citing controversy over recent amendments, a state panel has delayed its vote on whether to recommend a bill that would change the state’s procedures for expungement.

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In the decades that Rock County District Attorney David O’Leary has been a prosecutor, he's learned it's not just juveniles who can suffer for years for acts that were ill-thought-out and possibly out of character.

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A state Assembly committee will hold a public hearing Thursday on a slew of bills, including one that would change the state’s procedures for expunging a person’s record.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the State Bar of Wisconsin's seven-year-old request for a rule change that would have allowed people charged with a crime but never convicted to remove those charges from online court records.

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A bill that would allow a judge to decide on expunging an eligible criminal defendant’s record after sentencing was introduced Thursday in the Assembly.

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Criminal Procedure Expungement Eric A. appeals an order denying both his petition for expungement and motion to be released from the sex offender registration requirements. We conclude the circuit court properly exercised its discretion and affirm. This opinion will not ...

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