Gov. Newsom Signs SB 731 Sealing Millions of Convicts’ Criminal Arrest Records
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California became the first state in American history to allow almost all old convictions on a person’s criminal record to be permanently sealed, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the landmark Senate Bill 731 into law. Well over a million Californians will now have the opportunity to be unburdened, in many cases for the first…