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Hazelwood Participates in Warrant Amnesty Project; Voucher Redemption Dates Set
The City of Hazelwood’s Municipal Court i participatd in the 2014 St. Louis Metropolitan Area Amnesty Project, sponsored by Better Life, Inc., in cooperation with St. Louis Community College. This program gives local citizens with misdemeanor warrants an opportunity to move past these issues by having them expunged.
The Amnesty Project was established in 2002 as a one-day event to help citizens clear their records of outstanding traffic-related warrants. Since then, the program has expanded to include all misdemeanor warrants as well as outstanding child support cases.
For the fourth year in a row, St. Louis Community College conducted this program on three days Aug. 2-9, allowing individuals to resolve outstanding warrants with more than 40 city and county municipal courts, including the City of Hazelwood.
“The City of Hazelwood has been a strong supporter of this program for many years. It gives an individual charged with a misdemeanor and/or traffic warrant an opportunity to correct a mistake or bad decision they made in their life,” said Hazelwood Police Chief Gregg Hall. “An arrest caused by an issued warrant can be embarrassing and often creates hardships for the person involved and the person’s family. This program encourages many people to do the right thing by resolving these problems before they have a negative effect on themselves and their loved ones.”
The Amnesty Project provides participants with a chance to resolve issues that may be preventing them from getting or keeping a job or moving ahead in their lives so they can build more productive futures for themselves and their families. Participants will be assessed a $10 processing fee to cover all warrant vouchers.
The voucher redemption period for the City of Hazelwood is between Aug. 11 and Sept. 5 . Hours of redemption are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Those who obtain a voucher at one of the three Amnesty Project events must bring it with them, along with $100, which will be used as a cash bond to lift the warrant. They will be required to return for another court date when the Judge will dispose of the matter. Only the defendant named on the voucher from “Better Family Life” and on the misdemeanor or traffic citation can participate in this program.
For more information about the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Amnesty Project, call Better Family Life at (314) 381-8200 or visit http://www.betterfamilylife.org.
