Record Sealing
If you have been charged with criminal violations in the past, the record of those charges may affect your ability to get work, housing, public benefits, financial aid for education, to drive or to enjoy other rights or privileges, such as voting. This information will help you understand what rights and options you have and what procedures you must use to clear or limit access to your criminal record by others.
Vacate Misdemeanor & Gross Misdemeanor Conviction
Vacation of a conviction releases you from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense. For all purposes, including responding to questions on employment or housing applications, a person whose conviction has been vacated may state that he or she has never been convicted of that crime.
Vacate Non-Violent Class B or Class C Felony Convictions
You can petition the sentencing court to vacate a conviction record, and seal the court file after the conviction has been vacated. State law gives you the right to state to anyone, including prospective employers, that you were NOT convicted of that offense, after a vacate motion has been granted.
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