The recent TAPinto Camden article, “Criminal Record? Expungement Event May Help You Erase Conviction,” is centered around a free expungement event that will take place on January 16, 2023 at Camden County College’s Camden City Campus. Dozens of attorneys will volunteer their time to review cases and send expungement requests to the courts, hoping to clear the criminal records of those who are attending the event and elligable. The article goes on to acknowledge, “(the) event will be heavily attended by lawyers from the Voorhees-based Archer & Greiner law firm.”
David Edelstein, Archer partner and chair of the pro bono committee, told TAPinto Camden, “the decriminalization of marijuana and expungement of those conviction records have helped to bring expungement in general to the forefront. The key, Edelstein said, is that the record erasure removes obstacles to employment. After the conviction is cleared from the record it shouldn’t be part of the consideration.”