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- Title
CRIMINAL RECORD RELIEF FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS: ANALYSIS OF CURRENT STATE STATUTES AND THE NEED FOR A FEDERAL MODEL STATUTE.
- Authors
Pelto, Ashleigh
- Abstract
This Note defines criminal record relief and analyzes the effectiveness of three state criminal record relief statutes at protecting trafficking survivors. This analysis is based on State Report Cards: Grading Criminal Record Relief Laws for Survivors of Human Trafficking by Polaris, a leading human trafficking nonprofit. It next discusses the absence of federal criminal record relief and how a statute at the federal level could provide relief for survivors with federal convictions while simultaneously providing a model for states to ensure their statutes incorporate best practices for record relief moving forward. This Note then discusses how Polaris's report stops short of providing a model statute for states to draw from. Finally, this Note provides a best practice statute based on Polaris's evaluation criteria and recommends it be added as an amendment to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
- Subjects
EXPUNGEMENT of criminal records; STATUTES; HUMAN trafficking laws; HUMAN trafficking prevention; CRIMINAL records; LEGAL status of human trafficking victims
- Publication
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 2, p473
- ISSN
1095-8835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36641/mjgl.27.2.criminal