NC legislation aims to help offenders clear their records, gain employment. "This is absolutely a [View all]

NC legislation aims to help offenders clear their records, gain employment. "This is absolutely a jobs bill," its sponsor says.


RALEIGH — Every time 28-year-old Poet Williams applies for a job, his arrest record comes up: three nonviolent misdemeanors.

Those drug charges have followed the Durham resident since he was 21, barring him from jobs, apartments and opportunities.

"I've put out so many applications trying to find a job," he said. "Burger King wouldn't even hire me."

Soon, however, he may be able to remove those offenses from his record.

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(Winston-Salem Journal)