Sealing Juvenile Records

This process should be easier for both petitioners themselves and legal professionals who hope to support petitioners. This tool is focused on MA.

Design

MVP should include

1. Expectation setting.
2. Links to support we cannot provide.
3. Mobile friendly UI.
4. A printable PDF.

Interview steps

1. Check for immigration status separately from the main interview
2. Screen for legal professionals
3. Link to get certified dockets
4. Sealing eligibility questions
5. Personal details questions
6. Downloadable/printable pre-filled petition PDF
7. Provide the address for mailing the petition

Users

Target Audiences

1. Petitioners.
2. Legal professionals or clinic volunteers.

Unresovled Petitioner Barriers

1. Frustration and distrust of the process.
2. No access to printers.
3. Which vocabulary will they find familiar?

User research needs to play a large role in the design of this tool.

This tool is made with Docassemble.

Testing

To get tests to run, you need to download chromedriver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/ and put it in tests/ You also need to pip3 install aloe selenium certifi

To run a feature test:

cd tests
aloe features/hello_world.feature