Natalee Moore’s stack of expunged court records was thick enough to jam a shredder.

At her recent graduation from treatment court, a room full of Marion County and state staff laughed and cheered Moore on as she shredded pages of police reports and criminal cases that were no longer part of her juvenile record.

“Say goodbye to your past,” Janalee Weitman, a state juvenile and family treatment court manager, said as Moore, 17, shredded the first pages.

She is one of dozens of local teenagers who have cleared their criminal history and recovered from substance use through a Marion County program called Supervised Treatment And Recovery Court.

“It just made me open my eyes, that it’s like, other people are actually seeing me grow and change as a person,” Moore said about her graduation. D

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