This Law Firm Publication by Quarles & Brady LLP discusses legislation California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed into law on October 10, 2013, prohibiting employers from inquiring or using information about job applicants' expunged criminal records. California law currently restricts employers' use of applicants' criminal history. The new law further prohibits employers from asking or using information about convictions that have been "judicially dismissed or ordered sealed," and adds four exceptions under which employers may ask about or use conviction records in certain job-related circumstances. The new law is effective January 1, 2014.