Eastmont, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record takes place whenever an individual is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally always remain on the person's state criminal record until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the same court after a particular 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 responsibilities owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are satisfied, the majority of community & district courts will generally grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, an individual is limited to only one vacation of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen 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 many years. Regional apprehending police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These requests must be made to both the regional apprehending police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be approved if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed given that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property owners to reject rental housing/ houses and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Eastmont 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, finger prints, images and other nonconviction data.

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property owners to reject rental housing/ houses and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Eastmont 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, finger prints, images and other nonconviction data.