Record Clearance Project

Organization Description

San José State is your connection to a dynamic community focused on helping you shape your future. SJSU is always adapting and expanding the ways we provide high-quality education, create unique research and hands-on experiences, and immerse students in our community. For these reasons and so many others, San José State was recently named the Most Transformative University by Money Magazine.

Program Information

RCP is a two part course that teaches students to give community education presentations and advise clients regarding court procedures to clear criminal convictions. Students learn legal interviewing, counseling, ethics, reading rap sheets, performing legal research and writing, court interpreting and related skills. In the second course, students learn to assist clients in preparing and filing petitions to clear criminal convictions in court, and related tasks. Under attorney supervision, students represent between two to four clients.

Students must have taken JS 140 and/or be enrolled in JS 141 to serve at this site.

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Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Must be 18 or older
Address 
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192
United States
General Phone 
(408) 924-1000
Website:
http://www.sjsu.edu
Student Contact 
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Program(s) 
Internship
Service Learning
Organization type 
Education - College or University (Nonprofit)
Focus Population(s)
Adults, College Students
Focus Area(s)
Advocacy and Human Rights, Civic Engagement, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice, Education, Food & Housing Security