Lynnwood, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally constantly stay on the individual'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 certain time period. For many criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been fully pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are met, many community & district courts will generally grant motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person 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 (cops arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Regional detaining cops agencies & 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 may make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These demands must be made to both the local detaining cops company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will generally be approved 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 likewise be used by property owners to deny rental real estate/ houses and by companies to deny job applications, job promos, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Lynnwood criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record and old cops criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images 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 likewise be used by property owners to deny rental real estate/ houses and by companies to deny job applications, job promos, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Lynnwood criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record and old cops criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction data.