University, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet occurs whenever an individual is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually always remain on the individual's state criminal record up until a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a certain period. For many criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, many community & district courts will usually give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might lawfully specify on future task applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

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

Nonconviction data (authorities arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ photos (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Local detaining authorities firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons might make written requests to expunge/delete such authorities nonconviction data. These requests should be made to both the regional detaining authorities firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will usually be given if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have passed since the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by proprietors to deny rental housing/ homes and by employers to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task and future. Call University criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old authorities criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old authorities criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, photos and other nonconviction data.

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by proprietors to deny rental housing/ homes and by employers to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task and future. Call University criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old authorities criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old authorities criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, photos and other nonconviction data.