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 typically constantly stay on the individual's state criminal record until a legal movement (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a certain period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary obligations owed to the court have actually been totally satisfied. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, a lot of community & district courts will typically approve movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

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

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These requests need to be made to both the regional arresting police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be granted if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have actually 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by landlords to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, etc. 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, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.