After the complex legal past, it was launched by Amnesty International

At the beginning of the millennium, during adolescence and early twenties, Heather Chis was addicted to metamphine.

To finance its addiction, it stormed the forged cars, homes and checks, which led to several arrests and a year in prison. However, she got a socky in 2004 after attending a court recovery program in Sulting Lake City.

She moved, eventually graduated from the college in 2014 and obtained a master’s degree in 2015. Today, she runs the same non -profit recovery center that she attended, and called The Haven, where she worked for 18 years, and she is now an executive director.

“He is like the CEO of a non -profit organization, but not a great sounding,” she says.

Staying ahead of the paper trail

She says that the last criminal crime was in 2002. But her record followed her for two decades, which complicates each step of her life. The angel has repeatedly denied its housing requests, while its money in the rental application fee was sank of $ 30.

“When you fall below the poverty line, which makes very little income due to your criminal record, this is a lot of money,” she says. Even after she became a executive director of The Haven in 2015, the Utah state government said at some point that it could not be alone with customers at the center because of her record.

So in 2023, Chis has gone through the legal process to disinfect its record, known as the cancellation. The cancellation is available to people who committed certain types of crimes and have been free of crime for some time specified, among other requirements that differ according to the state.

To clarify its record, a Chase used an online tool made by Rasa Legal, a company operating in Utah and Arizona, which uses artificial intelligence and other automation programs to accelerate the authorization process.

“We are trying to automate everything that does not require creativity or judgment,” says Nawala Sudburi, founder and CEO of RASA. “To cancel, this is about 90 % of the work.”

Before using the RASA tool, Chis looked at its own record, but found the process very exhausting to complete it. It will be required to travel physically to every judicial state that has absolutely arrested to request its records.

A long, difficult road

“The American judicial system regulates documents based on cases, instead of individuals,” said Sodbury.

If Chis had withdrawn these records, the state will then use them to determine its eligibility to cancel.

“I did not have this in spending a year from my time walking down and withdrawing all these records, especially when some provinces are about an hour away,” says Chis. Not to mention the emotional stress that she felt reviewed in the age of her life.

On the other hand, the RASA tool is automatically determined. The company has concluded agreements with government and local courts in Utah and Arizona, which allows them to collect their criminal records on a central platform.

The customer pays $ 15, or $ 5 if they are ready to provide some demographic information, to find out what he is in his record in less than three minutes and whether these records are eligible for fusion. If so, RASA provides legal services for a fixed fee of $ 250 for these individuals to help them overcome this process.

It is much cheaper than the traditional path, as a person looking to cancel a lawyer rents several thousand dollars.

Using artificial intelligence can provide a lot of money for legal relief

Some of these savings come from the use of AI Tawylidi. RASA abstract intelligence uses to help customers write a document known as a broad -ending name, to be submitted to the court.

This document is a personal statement explaining the customer’s motive to scan his record and stay free of crimes, whether it is to obtain a job or volunteer in their children’s school.

The customer answers a questionnaire and the RASA model produces a first draft of this petition. The lawyer reviews and modified it before submitting it to the judicial system.

“We are not submitting it directly to the court, but it saves us a lot of time,” said Sodbury. The RASA team includes only three lawyers.

The results seem promising. Since September 2022, when RASA launched, 22,000 people have used the company’s tools, 5,000 of whom have successfully cleared their records.

In comparison, Sudbury used to run free legal clinics in 2010, which can help about 400 people wipe their records annually. Chase’s Recove Center also provides RASA cancellation services as useful.

The need for these tools has grown recently, as many legal relief countries have expanded, which increased the number of people eligible for purchase. In the decade and a half of the past decade, 30 states have passed laws to redress or reduce fees related to non -violent property or drug crimes.

It was approved in 2017, the California 64 proposal, which has made the entertainment use of marijuana, also a path for those convicted of crimes related to marijuana to reduce the classification or remove their convictions.

But the process is still very slow

The most rapid cancellation process can help their records.

Study 2020 I found that less than 10 % of people eligible to obtain legal relief, such as cancellation, are already going through it. This leaves about 20 to 30 million adults, or about a third of people who have criminal records, and live in this alleged “second” chance.

“I call it American paper prisons,” says Colin Shin, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who co -authored the study. “It is the idea that the red tape, not steel bars, hinders people.”

Chine, also, is believed that the intriguing artificial intelligence can help cancel. In an effort similar to the RASA tool, test Chien A. Proof of Chatbot Proof of the concept Based on ChatGPT to help people determine whether they are eligible to cancel in Arizona. Shen says LLMS is especially useful because they can respond to users in other languages.

The beneficiaries of the excess of a new rental contract get life.

“There is just a freedom to cleanse your record and know that you have made clear your commitment to society several years ago,” says Chis. “I have finished your time; you have paid your fines; you have completed the conditional test or a conditional release and all the recommendations and requirements of the court. It has ended.”

It also makes practical tasks such as finding a job or renting an apartment easier. Under most of the state laws, after closing the records or cancellation, the person is no longer legally obligated to report his criminal record on jobs and housing requests.

The law to report a fair credit, which was approved in 1970, also requires the background checking companies to remove these records from their databases.

“The seal and turmoil are usually very effective in helping someone check the background,” said Sodbury.

Legal and AI is a battle to change the stain of shame

RASA also offers a model of how lawyers are integrated with the responsibility of Amnesty International in their work. Ultimately, humans review whatever their technique.

“It is really important for humans and technology to work together to present accurate things,” said Sodbury. It calls the Wooing AI “Small Child Program”. “Will I only allow Amnesty International to do this on its own? No.”

Their practice of modern headlines contradicts that the lawyers were approved for the martyrdom of unstable Chatgpt cases in court. In addition, to protect customer privacy, RASA uses AI model at home.

However, Chien warns that technology -based solutions are not a silver bullet.

“AI removes friction, but it does not change the basic functional imbalance in the system,” says Shin.

Artificial intelligence helps, but it will not solve the problem, which is the number of people who qualify for relief who cannot obtain it is very large.

“My fear is that we are in automation, we will be satisfied with the current systems, instead of really thinking about the root causes of problems and trying to change the dynamics of power,” she says.