Compton public defender’s office hold expungement event

By Dennis J. Freeman

COMPTON (The Bulletin)

– Getting a clean slate can be a challenge for individuals who find themselves behind bars or incarcerated. Once these individuals walk into freedom there is still a likelihood that are not truly out of the criminal justice system.

The legal expungement or erasing of past misdeeds tend to come back and hurt those seeking employment and want to move ahead with their life.

This is where people like Traci Blackburn step. Blackburn is head deputy of the Compton public defender’s Office. On Thursday, June 15, Blackburn and the Compton branch of the Los Angeles

County’s public defender’s office forged a partnership Mayor Emma Sharif to hold an expungement