Community Listening Session: A Reality Check on Background Checks
Sat, Oct 11
|In person - Location TBD
Have personal experience or a loved one dealing with a criminal background, background checks, or expungements? Join us in the late summer/fall of 2025 and be a part of critical research about the implementation and effectiveness of the Minnesota's new Clean Slate law.
Time & Location
Oct 11, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
In person - Location TBD
About the event
Have you been rejected from a job because of your criminal background? Have you ever tried to have your background officially cleared? Have you heard about Minnesota’s new Clean Slate law and wondered how and whether it will work? We want to hear from you! Join us for a listening session and be a part of critical, community-based research about the implementation and effectiveness of the Minnesota's new Clean Slate law.
About the project:
The consequences of a criminal record can be devastating. Private sector criminal background checks are widely used to screen applicants for housing, employment, and volunteering opportunities. A law in 2024 sought to address this discrimination: “Clean Slate” was enacted by the Minnesota State legislature to automatically seal many criminal records. But the extent to which these companies comply with the new law is unknown. At the Minnesota Justice Research Center, we want to know… Is the law working? Are private…