"A Reintegration Agenda for the 117th Congress: Criminal Record Relief, Federal Benefits, & Employment" The title of this post is the title of this notable new short report from the Collateral Consequences Resource Center. This blog posting at CCRC, titled "Second Chance Month: A Federal Reintegration Agenda" provides some background on the report. Here is the report's introduction: The new Congress has an opportunity to make significant bipartisan progress on criminal justice reform, including reducing barriers to successful reintegration for people with a criminal record. This agenda recommends specific measures by which Congress can accomplish this. During the wave of criminal record reform that began around 2013, every state legislature has taken some steps to chip away at the negative effects of a record, thereby supporting opportunities to earn a living, access public benefits, education, and housing, regain voting rights, and otherwise reintegrate into society. Many states have entirely remade their record relief systems — authorizing or expanding expungement, sealing, set-aside, certificates of relief, and/or deferred adjudication — and limited the consideration of arrest and conviction records in employment and licensing.