There are two smaller steps taken this year that have not yet been recognized for their long-term impact upon achieving the important goal of restoring registrants’ civil rights. Both of those steps come in the form of publications. First, there is the law review article written by ACSOL Board Member and Southwestern Law School professor Catherine Carpenter entitled “All Except for: Animus that Drives Exclusions in Criminal Justice Reform, 50 SW L.Rev. 1 (2020). Professor Carpenter’s article identifies and analyzes many laws that reduce criminal penalties or collateral consequences of conviction, but that categorically exclude registrants from those benefits. For example, most individuals convicted of taking merchandise valued at $950 or less will be convicted of shoplifting, a misdemeanor; however, registrants convicted of the same act will convicted of a felony.