{"id":2537,"date":"2021-01-06T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recordgone.com\/news\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2021-01-06T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T07:51:07","slug":"third-annual-law-student-expungement-competition-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recordgone.com\/news\/2021\/third-annual-law-student-expungement-competition-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Annual Law Student Expungement Competition Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Foundation for Continuing Justice and the RecordGone.com division of The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates are pleased to announce the results of its third annual Criminal Record Policy Essay Competition. More than $3,500 was awarded to law students from five different schools.<\/p>\n

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The essays were judged by a diverse panel of judges, including attorney Mathew Higbee, an expert on criminal record expungement, Blake Perez, legislative affairs director for the Foundation for Continuing Justice, and Craig Kessler, the founder of BackgroundChecks.com.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

The goal of the contest is to support law students\u2019 educational pursuits while helping increase awareness of long-term impact a criminal record has and the importance of thoughtful laws governing topics as criminal record expungement<\/a> and sealing<\/a> as well as the publicizing and utilization of criminal records.\n<\/p>\n

The contest, which was open to current law students, was designed to encourage research about the potential of criminal record expungement and record sealing laws in various states. The entrants were asked to address one of three topics:\n<\/p>\n