Oklahoma’s Clean Slate Initiative is now law!
Thanks to advocates like you, in 2022, our state became the sixth state in the country to enact a Clean Slate law.
The Clean Slate system is a digital tool that will automatically expunge criminal records for eligible Oklahomans. It is being built now and will take full effect in 2026. It is funded by the federal government at no cost to the Oklahoma taxpayer.
Get involved with Clean Slate Oklahoma
We need your help reminding lawmakers that Clean Slate is important to you, and you want to see this work through.
Clean Slate will transform Oklahoma’s economy
With better access to education, jobs, and housing, rural families and urban communities of color can begin to lift their families out of generational poverty.
Employers will be able to access a larger market of employees for in-demand jobs like service, labor, and manufacturing.
With better options for the future, those with expunged records are less likely to return to crime.
1.2 Million
Oklahomans currently have a criminal conviction on their records that make it harder to get a job, go to school, get housing.
80%
of these Oklahomans who are eligible for expungement can’t afford the cost of a lawyer to file the paperwork to get it done. Clean Slate will do this automatically, free of charge.
100,000
Oklahomans are eligible to have their records expunged. When Clean Slate is fully implemented, they’ll be able to go back to school, get better jobs, and secure better access to housing.
5X
higher unemployment rate for justice-involved Oklahomans, compared to the national average.
Oklahoma’s movement is part of the national Clean Slate Initiative, whose mission is to pass laws that automatically clear eligible records around the U.S.
The latest with Oklahoma Clean Slate
Hear from real Oklahomans whose liVES WILL BE CHANGED BY CLEAN SLATE.
We can fix this simply by funding and fully implementing Oklahoma's Clean Slate law.
Oklahoma is the 6th state in the nation to pass clean slate legislation
Clean Slate is already benefiting the dozen states that have passed the initiative into law. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Utah were among the first to do this.
Oklahoma’s Clean Slate bill, House Bill 3316, has become the template for similar legislation in other states including Texas, Missouri, West Virginia, and New Mexico.
PENNSYLVANIA
1.2 million people have benefited from Clean Slate and 40 million records have been sealed in Pennsylvania since 2019.
MICHIGAN
Between 400,000 and 1 million estimated people would benefit from Michigan's Clean Slate group implementation.
UTAH
An estimated 400,000 historical criminal records were automatically cleared and several hundreds thousand more will be with Utah’s Clean Slate law.