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Gov. Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin have announced that they are making great progress in trimming the backlog of unprocessed expungement cases, which translated to a whopping 46,000 people living in limbo when we last visited the issue in February.
They made this announcement in a Monday news release that was filled with platitudes about how they are helping rebuild the lives of New Jerseyans stigmatized by arrests or convictions on minor charges – lives that never should have been disrupted in the first place — until revealing in the final paragraph how many unprocessed cases still remain.