It also shouldn’t be happening in Louisiana, where the legislature passed the Clean Slate Act in 2023. After four years of work in the legislature, the Clean Slate Act passed through both legislatures and was signed by Gov. He’d seen how Louisiana’s slow-moving, bureaucratic expungement process prevented people from finding jobs and rebuilding their lives, he said. Louisiana’s expungement process requires individual petitions that are reviewed by multiple agencies before a judge can sign an expungement order. Much of this confusion would be eliminated if the Clean Slate Act could only be implemented.