Pontiac, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will typically constantly remain on the person's state criminal record up until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a particular period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have been completely pleased. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, most local & district courts will typically give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to just one trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and particular misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Regional apprehending police 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 might make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands should be made to both the regional apprehending police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will typically be given if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property owners to reject rental real estate/ apartment or condos and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Pontiac criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.