Cowley, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will typically always stay on the person's state criminal record till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a certain period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there should not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most community & district courts will typically give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is restricted to only one holiday of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (cops arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person 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. Regional jailing cops agencies & 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 cops nonconviction information. These requests should be made to both the regional jailing cops company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be granted if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have 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 owners to reject rental real estate/ houses and by employers to reject task applications, task promotions, etc. Safeguard your task and future. Call Cowley criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old cops criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction information.