The Legal Community of Bakersfield to organize the free trigger clinic for residents

Bakersfield, California (Kero) -The Pre-Law program from CSU-B, the lawyers of the region and other members of the Kern Legal Community will help the residents who have criminal records to get a second chance by helping them delete their records.

• The clinic aroused much more interest than the organizers had previously expected. Therefore, you have decided on a pre -clinic to ensure that the participants who are interested in extending their records are in order of their affairs in front of the clinic on May 9th. Information on registration for the clinic can be found on the CSU-Bakersfield website.
• 23ABC spoke to the defense lawyer David A. Torres, who helped the residents to suspend their records in the clinic, and said the purpose was: “Inhalation a life in our community.”
• Eric Huggins Sr., who had imprisoned time due to crimes related to drugs, said he was one of the many who had triggered their records based on the clinic: “It is good to know that this will not be pursued again; for something I did over 30 years ago.”

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If you usually see us in front of the core of superior court house, it will usually be “so and so this crime” accuses “, but the story is a little different, I am Sam Hoyle, her reporter in the neighborhood. Members of the CAL-State Bakersfield Pre-Law program, local lawyers, the core of Superior Court and many others will help the core community members to delete their documents free of charge.

Eric Huggins Sr. spent several years in prison for drug -related crimes and said he was affected by his past, even though he turned his life better.

“This is one thing about this extension. It stops me from being reminded of my past, because if I fill out an application and run through a background check, it is good to know that this is not ridiculed for something that I did over 30 years ago.”

The defense lawyer of Kern County, David Torres, is one of the lawyers who will take part in the clinic in his view, and a record injury gives those who have passed the rehabilitation process a new life.

“We try to breathe new life into our community, individuals who otherwise do not have this opportunity to clean their records, to completely seal and destroy their records so that they go in and try to improve their lives, improve their family and clean the recording at the same time.”

In the last two clinics, they were able to help hundreds of core residents to maintain this second chance and to exceed the expectations of how many would use the service, so that the clinic will now hold a preparation on April 4 to optimize the process. In order to be entitled to the clinic, the participants must have a valid ID card, their case numbers from Kern County and paid all the fines paid in advance. However, no federal or youth cases are taken into account. Torres also found that those who are looking for a wipe stood outside the state prison for at least two years and was not sentenced to charges, including the registration of sex offenders.

For Huggins, now a businessman with state licenses, the hope that people will use the clinic to improve their lives.

“The opportunity, if you want it, I hope that I have this opportunity to fill out a state application or a job that requires your background check, and you are not defined who have been in the past, but by defined who are in the present. And hopefully you know that this will help a lot.”

To learn how to register for the clinic, we will have links to this information on our website.

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