Commentary: Clean Slate Law opens doors for those who’ve earned it

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert recently signed into law Utah’s Clean Slate bill, House Bill 431, legislation that I filed to help thousands of eligible Utahans expunge old criminal records. The bill, which received tremendous support from the governor and the Legislature, will give people who have paid their debt to society the chance they’ve earned to leave their past in the past.The Clean Slate Law gives our citizens a means of efficiently expunging records of old convictions or arrests fo