Vacating a conviction reduces reentry barriers

A criminal record can haunt you even years after release.

Removing convictions from your record can eliminate rejection and stigma and open doors to your future.

Getting a conviction vacated from your record means that the conviction will no longer be reported to anyone who searches your criminal history.

Behind the numbers

Vacating a conviction in Washington is complicated and intimidating but doing so opens opportunities in employment, housing, and education.

In the state, there are many people with convictions that are eligible to vacate, but do not know it, or do not know where to start.

Of the 1M+ Washingtonians eligible to vacate

Less than 3% have actually vacated their convictionsSource: Paper Prisons Report

Washington's incarceration rates are alarmingly high

Every year in Washington

are released from prisons and jailsSource: Prison Policy