Clearing an Obstacle to Expungement
Providing automatic expungements for people with low level criminal history will affect thousands of Utahn’s lives for generations to come.
Bolstering Utah’s Public Defenders
Besides over-criminalization and a massive increase in the number of people who enter the criminal justice system, funding for public defenders has been a major problem.
Second chances for first time offenders
Here's an alternative solution for over-criminalization.
SB 62: Easing Eligibility on Expungements
This bill relaxes current statute to make it somewhat easier to become eligible for expungement, not only for prior offenses, but for a prior arrest that does not result in prosecution.
SB 20: Ending the Flood of Class B Misdemeanors
This bill not only addresses the plague of over-criminalization, but also addresses one of the chief causes of a bloated amount of misdemeanor offenses.
Getting a ticket shouldn’t land you in jail
Something as small as a parking ticket could eventually land you in jail. But what if there was a legal alternative to paying a fine?