Snohomish, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A rap sheet occurs 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 motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a particular time period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial commitments owed to the court have been fully pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, the majority of local & district courts will generally approve motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Local arresting police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These requests must be made to both the regional arresting police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be given if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have passed considering that 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 data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property owners to reject rental real estate/ homes and by companies to reject task applications, task promotions, 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 data.