The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender has recently filed a class action under the New Jersey Civil Rights Act seeking to compel the New Jersey State Police to promptly process court-ordered expungements of criminal records of people who have been convicted of a criminal offense and have satisfactorily paid any financial assessments, completed a period of probation or parole or have been released from incarceration after the passage of a specific number of years without having committed any further offenses. The complaint does not ask for financial damages but only a declaration that the State Police did not comply with orders of the courts, and to require that expungements be processed within a reasonable and appropriate amount of time. The merits of the case are indisputable. The attorney general should assent rather than litigate to avoid further delays.