Consumer reporting agencies will not be on the hook for disclosing sealed criminal records under the latest version of a criminal justice reform bill before the Georgia General Assembly, and the policy looks dead until next year.
The Senate last month unanimously passed a version of Senate Bill 365 that would have allowed people to sue consumer reporting agencies that reveal criminal histories that have been sealed by the courts—such as when records have been expunged—or are inaccurate.
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