LANSING, Mich. — More than 1.2 million convictions were set aside Tuesday on the first day of an automatic expungement program created by a 2020 law designed to reopen job and housing opportunities for individuals with old crimes on their records.
Michigan State Police said its software cleared 1,077,788 misdemeanor and 105,078 felony convictions from its Criminal History Record. That's in addition to the thousands of lesser, 92-day misdemeanor convictions that district courts are sorting through separately for expungement.
In all, in the Michigan State Police's expungement efforts Tuesday, 252,417 people are now conviction-free and 842,593 individuals had at least one conviction set aside, state police spokeswoman Shanon Banner said.
