{"id":269,"date":"2013-04-25T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.recordgone.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T17:55:59","slug":"mathew-higbee-testifies-about-expungement-laws-to-california-state-senates-committee-on-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recordgone.com\/news\/2013\/mathew-higbee-testifies-about-expungement-laws-to-california-state-senates-committee-on-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Higbee Testifies About Expungement Laws to California State Senates Committee On Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attorney Mathew Higbee was the lead witness in support of Senator Roderick Wright\u2019s bill to expand the benefits of California\u2019s expungement law. <\/strong>The bill, SB 530, is expected to be approved by the committee.<\/p>\n

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Higbee explained to the committee that, despite California\u2019s many innovative programs designed to help former offenders, California\u2019s expungement law still leaves many former offenders set-up to fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many ways, California is very progressive and innovative when it comes to helping former offenders. We provide drug treatment, continuing education, job training and even tattoo removal. But California does not remove the one thing that many other states do, and that is the label of criminal. California\u2019s law governing expungement and other post-conviction remedies are inadequate, as a result, all of those investments in rehabilitation and training are marginalized\u2014 leading to unnecessary unemployment, under-employment, and waste of human capital,\u201d said Higbee.<\/p>\n

The current version of SB 530 expands the eligibility for certificate of rehabilitation<\/a> and codifies a regulation that prohibits employers from discriminating against people with an expunged conviction. Higbee says that the bill will likely be amended to provide bigger benefits to more people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am expecting the bill to create a new legal remedy that will allow some offenders to have convictions removed from their Department of Justice report, commonly know as a Live Scan report,\u201d said Higbee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attorney Mathew Higbee was the lead witness in support of Senator Roderick Wright\u2019s bill to expand the benefits of California\u2019s expungement law. The bill, SB 530, is expected to be approved by the committee. Higbee explained to the committee that, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[91,89,90,92],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-recordgone-news","tag-california-expungement","tag-sb530","tag-senate-bill-530","tag-senator-wright"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t