Snohomish, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record takes place whenever a person is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally constantly remain on the individual'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 time period. For many criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been totally pleased. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, many local & district courts will generally approve motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) occur 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 many years. Local apprehending police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both keep 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 apprehending police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be granted if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed since 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ homes and by employers to reject task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task and future. Call Snohomish criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record 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, images and other nonconviction information.