Cowley, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually always remain on the individual's state criminal record until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a specific period. For most 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 actually been fully pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most community & district courts will usually grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may legally specify on future task applications that he/she has never had a rap sheet.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to just one vacation of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex crimes can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for many years. Regional detaining police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These requests must be made to both the regional detaining police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will usually be approved if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have actually passed since 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 also be utilized by property managers to deny rental housing/ homes and by companies to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Secure your task and future. Call Cowley criminal record expungement lawyer 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, images and other nonconviction information.