Find Out About Collateral Consequences of Criminal Charges Proceedings and Convictions in Your State

· Internal Exile: Collateral Consequences of Conviction in Federal Laws and Regulations (The ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia)

· Federal Statutes Imposing Collateral Consequences Upon Conviction (2000) (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney)

· Civil Disabilities of People with Felony Convictions: A State-by-State Survey (October 1996) (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney)

State Sanctions

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Arizona

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Arizona:

Connecticut

Consequences of a Felony Conviction Regarding Employment, OLR Research Report, April 2005,

Delaware

District of Columbia

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in the District of Columbia:

A Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers (Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Community Defender Office, 2004)

Florida

Collateral Sanctions: Floridas Laws and Policies Impacting Employment Opportunities of Ex-Offenders

Miami-Dade Public Defender http://www.pdmiami.com/redemption_project.htm

Re-Entry Program at Florida Department of Corrections (http://www.dc.state.fl.us/orginfo/reentry/index.html)

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Frequently Asked Questions

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

A Report on the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Maryland (University of Maryland Law School, Spring 2007)

Massachusetts

Michigan

Michigan Reentry Law Wiki (produced by Legal Aid Society of West Michigan, and hosted by the Michigan Poverty Law Program)

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

How to Expunge Your Criminal Record (New Jersey Courts Online)

New Mexico

New York

**Reentry Net/NY (www.reentry.net/ny)

McGregor Smyth, The Consequences of Criminal Proceedings in New York State: A Guide for Criminal Defense Attorneys and Other Advocates for Persons with Criminal Records (The Bronx Defenders, February 2010)

Re-Entry and Reintegration: The Road to Public Safety, Report and Recommendations of the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Proceedings (June 2006)

Collateral Consequences of Non-Criminal Adjudications, Report by the New York County Lawyers Association (May 8, 2006)

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Compilation by Toledo Law Review: (http://law.utoledo.edu/students/lawreview/volumes/v36n3/mossoney_roecker.htm)

Youthwork Information Brief: Youthful Offenders and Collateral Sanctions (http://www.learningworkconnection.org/docs/infobrief8Collateral-Sanctions.pdf)

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Community Legal Services

* Community Education (http://www.clsphila.org/community_ed.htm)

* Information for People with Criminal Records (http://www.clsphila.org/Content.aspx?id=178)

· Employment

· Family advocacy (representing parents involved with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services)

· Public benefits

· Public housing and Section 8

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Beyond the Conviction: What Defense Attorneys in Washington State Need to Know About Collateral & Other Non-Confinement Consequences of Criminal Convictions (Washington Defender Association, 2005)

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming