Shorewood, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will typically constantly stay on the person's state rap sheet till a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a certain period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, most community & district courts will typically approve motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to only one vacation 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, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Regional arresting cops agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons might make written requests to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These requests need to be made to both the regional arresting cops firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be granted if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have passed given that 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 data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property managers to reject rental housing/ homes and by companies to reject task applications, task promotions, etc. Protect your task and future. Call Shorewood rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court rap sheet and old cops criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction data.