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Indiana's Second Chance law, sponsored by Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, allows for the expungement of certain misdemeanor and felony offenses. Indiana Code 35-38-9-2 through 35-38-9-6 allows for the expungement of misdemeanors, and non-violent felonies.
The Second Chance Act of 2007 (H.R. 1593), titled "To reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, to improve reentry planning and implementation, and for other purposes," was submitted to the House by Representative Danny Davis (D-IL) to amend the Omnibus ...
Eric Joseph Holcomb (/ ˈ h oʊ l k əm / HOHL-kəm; [1] born May 2, 1968) [2] is an American politician who has served since 2017 as the 51st governor of Indiana.A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Indiana from 2016 to 2017 under Governor Mike Pence, who left the governorship in 2017 to become the vice president of the United States.
September 17, 2024 at 5:04 AM. Mayoral impeachments are rare in Indiana, said Paul Helmke, who served as mayor of Fort Wayne and is a professor at Indiana University’s Paul H. O’Neill School ...
Second Chance Month. Second Chance Month, observed in the United States during April since 2017, is a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, and unlock second-chance opportunities for people who have completed their sentences to become contributing citizens.
VIII, XIV. Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution 's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments. The case covered the asset forfeiture of the petitioner's truck after the police found a small quantity of drugs ...
The laws in Indiana and Mississippi are now on hold as legal challenges to them play out. The Indiana law (Senate Bill 17) says visitors to websites that display pornography or other "adult ...
In the late 1960s, Indiana saw various reforms to the anti-abortion laws of the 1950s, which previously made it “a crime at common law to wilfully solicit and/or procure a miscarriage” or to “wilfully terminate a pregnancy except by the operation of nature.” [9] By 1967, no state had fully legalized abortion, but many states had begun the process of reforming laws in favor of ...