Pontiac, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet happens whenever a person is convicted of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will normally constantly remain on the individual's state criminal record up until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the very same court after a specific period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have been totally satisfied. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, most municipal & district courts will normally approve movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

An individual 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, a person is restricted to just one trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex crimes 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 many years. Regional arresting cops agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written requests to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction information. These requests need to be made to both the regional arresting cops agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will normally be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information sought to be erased, and over 3 years have passed because 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 used by property owners to reject rental real estate/ houses and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Pontiac 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.