Kewanee residents offered second chance to expunge criminal records
Susan DeVilder
The Star Courier
Mistakes made in the past can haunt people in the future, and a local legal service is offering help for residents whose past criminal record no longer reflects their current life.
“We have worked with clients who maybe have made a mistake when they were younger and are now ready to move past that,” said Kevin Hempy, an equal justice works fellow with Prairie State Legal Services.
PSLS, in collaboration with the Public Interest Law Initiative, is announcing 2021 Virtual Expungement Clinics in Henry County. The clinics will provide free legal services to income-eligible individuals with old criminal records. The goal of the program is to assist community members struggling to access employment or housing as a result of criminal records that are eligible to be expunged or even sealed.