MN SF2214

Expands juvenile delinquency expungement eligibility and establishes specific factors courts must consider including age, offense circumstances, victim impact, rehabilitation history, and benefits to the subject in pursuing education, employment, or housing.

Requires business screening services to promptly delete sealed, expunged, or pardoned criminal records from their databases.

Allows courts to expunge eviction records when judgment is entered in favor of the defendant, with expungement occurring at time of judgment or upon later motion.

Creates new pathways for record sealing including: completion of diversion programs or stays of adjudication with one year without new charges; misdemeanor convictions with three years without new charges; and specific felony offenses with five years without new charges.

Allows prosecutors to agree to sealing records without requiring a petition, subject to victim notification, with courts presuming sealing is appropriate unless public safety concerns outweigh the disadvantage to the record subject; establishes automatic waiver of filing fees for certain eligible petitioners.