Snohomish, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet takes place whenever an individual is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will typically always remain on the individual's state criminal record until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a certain time period. For many 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 pleased. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, many community & district courts will typically give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever an individual is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for many years. Local arresting police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals might make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These requests should be made to both the regional arresting police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information 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 Area is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by property owners to reject rental housing/ apartment or condos and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Snohomish 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.