Workforce development programs

Start my expungement

At Checkr, we believe a criminal sentence should never be a life sentence to unemployment. We believe human potential should not be limited by the past, and we work to expand people’s opportunities.

To promote our mission of fair-chance hiring, we built an affordable end-to-end expungement process for candidates, which leads them from qualification to completion.

We currently support expungements in California. If you have a charge in California you think qualifies, start our process.

How it works

1

Educate

Job-seekers are proactively alerted that they have a potentially expungeable charge through email, SMS text, and in-context on their background check.

2

Qualify

Eligible job-seekers fill out a questionnaire to determine if their record qualifies for an expedited expungement through our service.

3

Pay

If they qualify, they may choose to pay the legal and processing fees required to file their petition for expungement. We also have sponsorship programs for these expungements.

4

File petition

Working with Lawyaw, Checkr creates and files the job-seekers’ petition and communicates results generally within 30 days.

5

See results

Working with Lawyaw, Checkr creates and files the job-seekers’ petition and communicates results generally within 30 days.

Get involved

We are looking for partners to explore pathways for scaling this solution and co-addressing some of the systemic issues around the impact of having a criminal record. Let’s talk about how we can work together.

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