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New Jersey's expungement rules have expanded — Clean Slate and the marijuana reforms opened pathways that didn't exist a few years ago. This check walks you through today's rules in plain language.
Three steps to know where you stand
Step 1
Answer about ten questions
Plain-language questions about your record. No name, no contact details, and nothing is saved unless you later choose to be contacted.
Step 2
Get an immediate answer
The check applies New Jersey's expungement rules as you go and tells you right away whether you appear eligible.
Step 3
Decide what happens next
If you appear eligible, you choose whether to be connected with a licensed, independent New Jersey attorney who can review your situation. Sharing your contact information is always your call.
What expungement means
Expungement is a court process that removes eligible arrests, charges, and convictions from the background checks employers and landlords run. New Jersey sets the rules in statute, including who qualifies and how long they must wait.
Those rules changed significantly under the 2019 Clean Slate law. Waiting periods are shorter and a ten-year whole-record option now exists, so many people who were once told no are eligible today.
This tool provides general information, not legal advice.
New Jersey's Clean Slate law
Clean Slate is a New Jersey law, in effect since 2020, that lets many people clear their entire record at once instead of one case at a time. If ten years have passed since your most recent conviction, sentence, or fine, with no new convictions, most or all of your record may be eligible in a single petition, including cases that were once considered too numerous to expunge.
Clean Slate does not cover every offense; the most serious crimes are excluded, and the ten-year clock has specific rules about when it starts. That is exactly what the free eligibility check above is designed to sort out. If Clean Slate or another New Jersey expungement pathway may apply to you, the check will say so in about two minutes.
General information only, not legal advice. Eligibility is determined by New Jersey law and the reviewing court.
Free New Jersey eligibility check
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About ten plain-language questions. No name, no email, nothing saved. If your record looks eligible, you decide whether to hear from a licensed New Jersey attorney.
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