Edmonds, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record occurs whenever an individual is convicted of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will generally constantly stay on the individual's state criminal record till a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a certain time period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary obligations owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are met, the majority of municipal & district courts will generally give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might legally state on future job applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, an individual is restricted to just one trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal offenses can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Local jailing police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals might make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands must be made to both the regional jailing police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will generally be given if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed because the date of the old arrest 

The site for the Washington State Criminal History Area is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be utilized by property managers to reject rental housing/ apartment or condos and by employers to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Edmonds criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, pictures and other nonconviction information.

The site for the Washington State Criminal History Area is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be utilized by property managers to reject rental housing/ apartment or condos and by employers to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Edmonds criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, pictures and other nonconviction information.