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

Cucumber tests

To get these tests to run on your local development machine (e.g., your laptop), make sure you have NPM installed.

The first time you run these tests, type npm install into your terminal. This will install the packages required for testing.

To run the tests, type npm run local into your terminal.

To run a single test file:

npm run setup
./node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js --require ./node_modules/docassemble-cucumber/lib/index.js tests/features/TEST_NAME.feature
npm run takedown