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North Carolina’s Expungement Gap | Durham News
North Carolina’s Second Chance Act, designed to automate and simplify record expungement, has left a messy gap: local agencies like Wake County’s don’t know when records are cleared, so their outdated online portal still shows cleared arrests—potentially damaging for those trying to move on. With 1.8 million automatic expungements statewide, Wake County is shutting down its public arrest portal on August 17th to stop this exposure, though in-person checks and jail intake records remain available. It’s a cautionary tale of how well-intentioned laws can create real-world data chaos when local…
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