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Kansas Expungement Guide: What Records Can Be Expunged and How to File
GO HERE TO CHECK IF AN EXPUNGEMENT CLINIC IS AVAILABLE IN YOUR AREA IN 2025.
View this webinar that tells you all you need to know about Expungement in Kansas.
Kansas who have an arrest or conviction on their records from when they were a juvenile (under 18 years old) might be able to get that record cleared.
Kansas Legal Services has an interactive form to create a document for the Court where the arrest or conviction took place.
You must first figure out if your crime is eligible for clearing.
Watch this short video on juvenile expungement.
DENIED?
If you received a denial notice from the Department for Children and Families, you can appeal.
What should you appeal?
You were denied benefits and:
Are you eligible for food stamps, child care subsidy, health insurance from the government?
To apply for SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits, TANF (cash assistance), Child Care Subsidy, find the application here. You do not need to be eligible for or want all these benefits. One application is considered for all these programs.
In 2015, changes were made in Kansas to the Severity of Crimes and Expungement chart. The chart shows how soon a criminal record may be expunged. The waiting times are for after all jail time, probation and parole is served. You can see and/or download the chart here.
As you may know, Kansas Legal Services is part of the national legal aid movement that was born in the War on Poverty in the early 1960s. KLS grew out of the movement that believed everyone deserved equal access to justice, without regard to their ability to pay for services.
The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) has a film about the history of civil legal aid in the United States on their website.
Your Rights and Protections in Wage and Non-Wage Garnishments
Here is a brief video about garnishment. Table of Contents
Click on the topic you want to explore. What is garnishment?
Wage Garnishment
Amount of Income That Can Be Garnished
How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing
From the National Consumer Law Center, June, 2022
Today, to rent an apartment or nail down a job, you almost always have to pass a background check.
File this form to ask for a court hearing. This applies when your income is exempt from garnishment in a collections matter.
Read about Kansas expungement laws and how to expunge your record.
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Kansas Expungement Guide: What Records Can Be Expunged and How to File
GO HERE TO CHECK IF AN EXPUNGEMENT CLINIC IS AVAILABLE IN YOUR AREA IN 2025.
View this webinar that tells you all you need to know about Expungement in Kansas.
Kansas who have an arrest or conviction on their records from when they were a juvenile (under 18 years old) might be able to get that record cleared.
Kansas Legal Services has an interactive form to create a document for the Court where the arrest or conviction took place.
You must first figure out if your crime is eligible for clearing.
Watch this short video on juvenile expungement.
DENIED?
If you received a denial notice from the Department for Children and Families, you can appeal.
What should you appeal?
You were denied benefits and:
Are you eligible for food stamps, child care subsidy, health insurance from the government?
To apply for SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits, TANF (cash assistance), Child Care Subsidy, find the application here. You do not need to be eligible for or want all these benefits. One application is considered for all these programs.
In 2015, changes were made in Kansas to the Severity of Crimes and Expungement chart. The chart shows how soon a criminal record may be expunged. The waiting times are for after all jail time, probation and parole is served. You can see and/or download the chart here.
As you may know, Kansas Legal Services is part of the national legal aid movement that was born in the War on Poverty in the early 1960s. KLS grew out of the movement that believed everyone deserved equal access to justice, without regard to their ability to pay for services.
The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) has a film about the history of civil legal aid in the United States on their website.
Your Rights and Protections in Wage and Non-Wage Garnishments
Here is a brief video about garnishment. Table of Contents
Click on the topic you want to explore. What is garnishment?
Wage Garnishment
Amount of Income That Can Be Garnished
How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing
From the National Consumer Law Center, June, 2022
Today, to rent an apartment or nail down a job, you almost always have to pass a background check.
File this form to ask for a court hearing. This applies when your income is exempt from garnishment in a collections matter.
Read about Kansas expungement laws and how to expunge your record.
Continue reading the main story
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