can you get a arrest record exponged ?

Answer 1

Yes you can, if you were arrested and not charged or convicted you can petition the court to expunge your Arrest record!!

Answer 2

Lets set the Record straight here. Big Brother sees all.

Lets focus on an 18 Year old person, an adult.

If you are arrested three times, those arrests are public record. We will assume for a moment that you were NEVER convicted or fined for those arrests. Try telling a judge that you were driving under the influence and got arrested three times...but, each time you were never convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol. This is referred to as a Record of Past Behavior, regardless of the conviction.

Now, if you were wrongly arrested of an infraction in the law and not convicted, then you can petition The courts to Expunge the arrest record.

When you apply for a position in industry or work as a security person, Your complete life is visible in Public and private records including some medical records.

This may not to fair to any of us, but it is a fact of life.

The Patriot act did more damage to the American people that the attack on 9/11.

So, Good luck on your effort to expunge your arrest record...The truth of the matter is some one will surly see it;)

Answer 3

An Arrest Record 'CAN' be expunged in the United States by petitioning the courts. An arrest record does not mean that you were convicted of a crime or even charged with one. Just get yourself an Attorney and use the laws to protect yourself and have them fight for you! If you were never charged with a crime this record, if the judge or mediator deems it so, can be expunged!

Answer 4

Arrest records are public records and they don't go off of the books, however if you're talking about criminal records then there are certain criteria. Like if you're a minor then when you become 18 they're null and void and you essentially start with a clean slate. But if you're not a minor when you got this criminal record then the only way you're getting it to go away is to be acquitted or to enter into some sort of plea bargain having you record as part of the deal. Good luck.

Answer 5

You can get an arrest record expunged. Depending on the state that you live in you would either have to write to the court or the criminal records division and request to have the incident expunged and your reasons why. There is also a time limit that you would have to abide by usually it is over 10-15 years from the incident this is something that you would have to check on in your state. The time limitation may vary state to state.

Answer 6

Do you mean a criminal record? (after you have been arrested, charged and found guilty in court?)
Here in Canada you can apply for a pardon if certain conditions are met that will wipe your record.

If you mean "Arrest" records as relating to police internal reporting system records, then no, not around here you can't. But there records are not disclosed to outside agencies.

Answer 7

I just had 6 misdemeanor convictions and/or arrests expunged or sealed on my public record; I called either legal aid or any lawyer in the phone book, I don't recall, and they gave me a state government office to contact. They sent a set of guidelines about the size of Time or Newsweek magazine. I poured over them to find what my eligibility for expunging/sealing was and I did the petitions myself. The state Appellate Division even encourages that individuals file their own petitions. They even gave me a lawyer with whom I spoke for about 15-30 minutes; she was very helpful in steering me in the right direction. The major obstacle was dealing with state government bureaucrats; you won't find a more lethargic,inert group of "workers" in any industry. You have to feign politeness and deference in order to motivate them to do the jobs they are paid to be doing. Do me a favor if you ever run into a state or government bureaucrat: tell them they are bigger freeloaders on the public dole than welfare people,who at least realize they are down and out.

Answer 8

while as stated above, things can be expunged the problem is in today's world of data collection the arrest which is public record is already in a data base,

|In future if the person goes for a job, many companies subscribed to this data base and they are under no obligation to expunged the record

Answer 9

Only if it is a wrongful arrest.

Answer 10

Yes you can. You need a good attorney or if you can pursade the governor to grant you a "Pardon".