Thanks to a new truancy law in effect this month, school children will no longer face criminal cases for failing to attend school, and hundreds of thousands of people will have their past truancy convictions expunged.
Six attorneys at DLA Piper deserve some of the credit for the legislative victory of House Bill 2398, which transported the state’s truancy system from the criminal to the civil arena.
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