From the Streets to the Senate: How Your Advocacy Creates Change
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Navigating Expungement Under the Second Chance Act: Practical Steps for Returning Citizens
🚨 CALLING ALL ADVOCATES: Second Chance Advocacy Day is May 6, 2025! 🚨
Advocacy Day
The Power of Second Chances
Raise Your Voice
We center those most affected by the justice system in everything we do.
Statewide Solidarity
We reject narratives that devalue people because of past mistakes.
Centering Lived Experience
Those most impacted by the justice system lead this movement. Their stories guide our priorities and shift how policy is made.
We’re Not Just Showing Up — We’re Organizing
Second Chance Advocacy Day is not a moment; it’s a movement. It’s how we build momentum for lasting reform and dignity for every North Carolinian.
Stories that Move Policy
Our voices carry weight. Storytelling during Advocacy Day helps humanize issues and influences decisions at the legislative level.
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We advocate for smarter laws:
- Expanding expungement access
- Ending debt-based license suspensions
- Stopping the misuse of mugshots
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Second Chance Alliance helped me find not just a job, but a real support network!
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From the Streets to the Senate: How Your Advocacy Creates Change
Join us for Second Chance Advocacy Day 2025, where your voice fuels change! Discover how collective action drives criminal justice reform and transforms lives.
Second Chance Advocacy Day is May 6, 2025!
Join us in Raleigh on May 6, 2025, for Second Chance Advocacy Day! Together, we’ll advocate for justice and policies that support second chances for all.
Navigating Expungement Under the Second Chance Act: Practical Steps for Returning Citizens
For individuals re-entering society after involvement with the criminal justice system, the weight of a criminal record can feel like a persistent shadow, hindering access to essential opportunities such as employment, housing, and education.1 This can create...
The Second Chance Act
A Victory for Criminal Record Relief
SB 562, also known as The Second Chance Act,
is a North Carolina law designed to expand access to criminal record relief for individuals with nonviolent charges. This legislation allows certain charges to be expunged automatically and streamlines the process for people seeking a second chance at employment, housing, and opportunity.
The Second Chance Act is a direct result of the voices and efforts of thousands of advocates, community members, and justice-impacted individuals who came together to urge lawmakers to remove barriers and build a more equitable system.
