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Connecticut ‘Clean Slate’ Law Erases Criminal Convictions

January 17, 2023

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A major law about the erasure and consideration of criminal convictions in employment in Connecticut took effect Jan. 1.

Passed by the Connecticut legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont in 2021, Connecticut’s “Clean Slate” law will alter employers’ abilities to discover, consider, or make decisions based on a job applicant’s or employee’s criminal history.

Although it has also long been the case that Connecticut law has barred employers from requesting information about, making hiring decisions, discriminating against or discharging employees based on criminal records that have been erased under Connecticut law, the new law expands protections for individuals whose records have been erased and will broadly expand the types of criminal convictions that will be erased or subject to erasure.

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