Stevens, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record happens whenever an individual is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will typically always stay on the person's state rap sheet until a legal movement (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the same court after a certain time period. For many criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary responsibilities owed to the court have been completely satisfied. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, many local & district courts will typically give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may legally state on future task applications that he/she has never had a rap sheet.

Under RCW 9.96.060, an individual is restricted to just one holiday of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and particular misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (authorities arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for many years. Local detaining authorities firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section 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 authorities nonconviction data. These requests should be made to both the local detaining authorities agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be approved if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have passed given that 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 data, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property managers to deny rental real estate/ houses and by companies to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task and future. Call Stevens rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old authorities criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old authorities criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, pictures and other nonconviction data.