Stevens, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly stay on the individual's state rap sheet until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a specific period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been totally satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, most community & district courts will usually give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

An individual whose criminal conviction is vacated might lawfully specify on future task applications that he/she has never ever had a criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to only one holiday of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ photos (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional detaining police companies & 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 might make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These requests must be made to both the regional detaining police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will usually be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data looked for to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed since the date of the old arrest 

The site for the Washington State Criminal History Section is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property managers to deny rental housing/ houses and by employers to deny task applications, task promotions, and so on. Secure your task and future. Call Stevens rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet 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, photos and other nonconviction data.