*** NEWS RELEASE *** Project Fresh Start: Expungement Volunteer Training

DC Volunteer Expungememt Training with NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Bar Association will host “Project Fresh Start”, a DC volunteer expungement training program that will be held on Saturday, March 29, during the organization’s 34th Annual Mid-Year Conference.

Project Fresh Start is a joint initiative with the NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Right Under the Law. This training will prepare DC attorneys to offer brief legal information to individuals during expungement walk-in clinics and provide full representation to those deemed eligible to file for an expungement. This is the first year the program has provided training for attorneys in the DC area.

The expungement process takes legal steps to permit qualified individuals to have their criminal records sealed or destroyed. Due to the lack of knowledge about the expungement process disproportionally affects members of the low income/disadvantaged community.

The National Bar Association was founded in 1925 and is the nation’s oldest and largest national network of predominantly African American attorneys and judges. It represents approximately 59,000  lawyers, judges, law professors and law students and has over 80 affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. For more information, visit: www.nationalbar.org