Winner of the 2020 Oregon State Bar Technology & Innovation Award

Making Record
Expungement Affordable

RecordSponge is software that helps community organizations quickly analyze an individual’s criminal history to determine if they qualify to have their records expunged.

Are you looking to clear your record?

Select a partner below near you. They can provide your analysis and help you file for expungement.

Partners

Over 20,000 analyses delivered as of July 2024

Are you interested in providing expungement help with this tool?

We’re looking to partner with organizations who have contact with many people who have criminal records.

Learn more about partnering

Your complete toolkit to expunge records

  • Search the OECI database for records
  • Edit or enter records manually
  • Get Instant eligibility results
  • Automatically generate paperwork
  • Guidance on how to file for expungement

Having performed expungement analysis both with and without the assistance of RecordSponge, I know that this program vastly decreases the time to perform expungement analysis, and vastly increases the number of people we can assist with expungements.

Leni Tupper, Portland Community College CLEAR Clinic

RecordSponge levels the playing field. It has been inspiring to see people fully return to our community as their records are expunged – Michael and his team have a heart for people, a knowledge of the system, and a solution that works in RecordSponge.

Eric Guyer, Jackson County Community Justice Director

I love that I can just pull my phone out and tell someone whether they can get their record expunged.

Sarah Kolb, Signs of Hope

Who We Are

Code PDX and Qiu-Qiu Law have developed and continue to improve analytical software to help expungement providers quickly determine which items on an applicant's record are eligible for expungement.

The goal of this project is to make expungement available to all Oregonians, regardless of their ability to pay. It further seeks to provide these services in the communities that need them the most.

More about us

Expungement in Oregon

For many folks who have had run-ins with the criminal justice system, punishment doesn't end with the end of their sentence. A criminal conviction or arrest can follow a person around for the rest of their life, well past the period of incarceration, probation, and financial penalty. This prevents them from accessing education, employment, housing, and services which might otherwise help them integrate back into society.

The State of Oregon provides a way for people to seal certain items from their records (effectively removing them), but the rules for determining which items are eligible are complex and prone to error when applying them by hand. As a result, expungement analysis is expensive in Portland - ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 when performed by private attorneys.

And so we created RecordSponge to greatly increase access to expungement by automating the legal analysis. We are seeking more partners to administer RecordSponge.

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RecordSponge Oregon is a nonprofit service delivered by Code PDX in collaboration with Qiu-Qiu Law.

The service is intended to be accompanied by legal advice.
The service is not standalone legal advice.