Snohomish, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A criminal record takes place whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally always 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 very same court after a specific 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 obligations owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there need to not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, the majority of local & district courts will generally grant movements 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) take place 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 many years. Regional detaining police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain 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 need to be made to both the local detaining police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed given 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 likewise be utilized by property owners to reject rental housing/ houses and by employers to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Secure 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, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction data.