Snohomish, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record takes place whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally always stay 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 specific time period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary obligations owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, most community & district courts will generally give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These requests must be made to both the regional arresting police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be approved if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by property owners to reject rental housing/ apartment or condos and by employers 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, pictures and other nonconviction information.