How do you erase past sins that are keeping you from getting a job? You can try and have a criminal conviction or an arrest taken off your record, a process called expungement. I’ve been reporting on how hard it is for ex-cons to find work, especially in this tough economy, and I came across a hot trend right now, expungement mania. States and municipalities are reporting a record number of you trying to remove any trace of your run ins with the law. And what seems to be driving it is the crummy job market. It’s harder than ever to land a gig, and hiring managers are keen to find any blemish in your past to disqualify you from the endless sea of applicants. Desperate times call for desperate measures. In Dayton, OH, there’s been a 54 percent jump in the number of people trying to expunge their records. And in Florida, according to the St. Petersburg Times : Judges statewide sealed and expunged more than 14,000 cases in the fiscal year ending June 30, a nearly 51 percent spike over the previous year.

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