Hartford, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record occurs whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly stay on the person's state criminal record until a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a specific time 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 responsibilities owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are met, most local & district courts will usually grant motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Regional jailing police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These demands should be made to both the regional jailing police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be granted if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed considering that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property managers to deny rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to deny job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Hartford 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, images and other nonconviction data.

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property managers to deny rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to deny job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Hartford 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, images and other nonconviction data.