Pontiac, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record happens whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will typically constantly stay on the person's state rap sheet until a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the very same court after a certain time 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 commitments owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, most municipal & district courts will typically grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever an individual is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional jailing police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section 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 police nonconviction data. These demands must be made to both the regional jailing police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will typically be given if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have passed because 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 also be utilized by property owners to reject rental real estate/ houses and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Pontiac rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court rap sheet 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, pictures and other nonconviction data.