MN Clean Slate Act is suspended further delays

The Minnesotaners, who expected to have a clean table by January 1-is probably triggered by the process for some side and violent crimes-goods have already been disappointed as state officials recognized a likely delay in mid-May.

But now it is unlikely that until then, Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Correete said. The result is that an estimated 500,000 Minnesotan, who qualify for the automatic triggering of their criminal records, will be displayed on criminal background exams in the coming months.

It is a delay that Evans said he was ready to accept – better than the public to endanger a conviction that does not appear when it should.

“Ultimately, what is really important at the end of the day is to ensure that we do not seal any records,” Evans recently said in an interview with the Minnesota Star Tribune. “At the end of the day, the BCA will not do anything that others may put in danger, and we have to do it right.”

But Jon Geffen, a lawyer of the law firm of the Right Revolution in St. Paul, said that the delay really means that thousands of people continue to be refused jobs, apartments and other benefits if they are not.

“We had the people who were ready to start the triggering process and we told them that Clean Slate would do it all,” said Giftfen. “We feel like fools now. And I just don't understand why [the delay]. “”

In order to just express it, civil servants said that it was a technological slog to create a computer program that merge 16 million criminal records with 16,000 state statutes before they automatically authorize, mostly non -violent offenses, small things and convicts at low level.

The idea was simple enough: wipe off the records for relatively small beliefs, for which people have already satisfied their sentences to give them a better chance of rebuilding their lives. When Minnesota passed the Clean Slate Act in 2023, it became one of 12 countries to enact such laws.