As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.
, has worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to help former inmates clear their records and get hired.Yet they have only been able to file 34 petitions, and just 12 had records expunged during what the program warns “can be a long and drawn out process.”
It's been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the corrections department to speed up certifying to the court that inmates have served as firefighters, said Dennis and one of her clients, Phi Le. He petitioned the court in October and his record was expunged in January.Da’Ton Harris Jr.'s record was finally cleared in August, about 18 months after starting the process.
Despite his record, Harris obtained firefighting jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, the state's firefighting agency Cal Fire, and the Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program. “I think it spearheaded opportunity for people, but I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said of the expungement law.
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