CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s new hope for people who committed crimes as teenagers.
He committed a non-violent crime at 16 years old.
Like many others, he paid for it years after turning his life around -- haunted by a record.
“It still impacts their ability to get jobs, to secure housing, to provide for their families,” Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather said.
But, a new law is helping some people clear their record.
“It means everything to me, it means a second chance,” resident David Duncan said.
In the video at the top of this webpage, Eyewitness News anchor Allison Latos learns why certain criminal records are now being wiped clean and the reason some believe it will make our community safer.
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