How To Expunge A Criminal Record In All 50 States
How To Expunge A Criminal Record In All 50 States

Author: James Carter

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-04-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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First things first: there are two ways of potentially clearing your criminal record in the United States-"expunging" the record and "sealing" the record. An expungement removes arrests and convictions from your criminal record entirely, as if they never happened. Even courts and prosecutors cannot access an expunged record. Sealing a criminal record, on the other hand, removes that record from public view, such as for background checks. However, sealed records can still be accessed by court order.

Erase Your Record
Erase Your Record

Author: Eric Dirga

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781722708290

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You deserve a second chance. We were all young once. We all made mistakes and did things that we later regret. Unfortunately, an arrest in your past can continue to haunt you and impact the rest of your life. Many people like you report being denied opportunities in their jobs, college education, apartment applications, banking and other scenarios because of a single mistake made in their past. Criminal record expungement and sealing can give you a second chance! Criminal record expungement (sealing) is the legal process to make a criminal record a non-public record. This essentially erases your record from public access. All information of the arrest and charges is removed or made confidential from all official agencies whose records are accessible to the public. Records are either made confidential or must be destroyed! This book, written by Florida Criminal Law Attorney and expungement expert Eric Dirga, is your Do-It-Yourself guide to seeking an expungement or sealing of your record. Erase your record and give yourself the second chance you deserve!

How to Clear Your Adult and Juvenile Criminal Records
How to Clear Your Adult and Juvenile Criminal Records

Author: William Rinehart

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781559501583

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This book is a well-researched primer on how to expunge or seal state criminal records. The author, an ex-convict, claims to have reduced three felonies and 30 misdemeanors to an essentially clear record without the assistance of a lawyer. Though he provides sample court motions, the book falls short with respect to federal convictions, citing federal remedies but giving no case citations. It also fails to explain how to file a federal Freedom of Information Act request or use an information broker to copy representative court pleadings. There are some minor statutory citation errors in the text, but the author has done a commendable job of taking an essential but little-known subject and reducing it to its basics. The text lists statutes and regulations for all 50 states. -Library Journal.

The Eternal Criminal Record
The Eternal Criminal Record

Author: James B. Jacobs

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 067496716X

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For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person’s interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but it has also facilitated the transfer of ever more sensitive information into the public domain. While there are good reasons for a person’s criminal past to be public knowledge, records of arrests that fail to result in convictions are of questionable benefit. Simply by placing someone under arrest, a police officer has the power to tag a person with a legal history that effectively incriminates him or her for life. In James Jacobs’s view, law-abiding citizens have a right to know when individuals in their community or workplace represent a potential threat. But convicted persons have rights, too. Jacobs closely examines the problems created by erroneous record keeping, critiques the way the records of individuals who go years without a new conviction are expunged, and proposes strategies for eliminating discrimination based on criminal history, such as certifying the records of those who have demonstrated their rehabilitation.

Digital Punishment
Digital Punishment

Author: Sarah Esther Lageson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0190872004

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"Data-driven criminal justice operations creates millions of criminal records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records take on a digital life of their own as they are collected and posted by police, courts, and prisons, and then re-posted on social media, online news and mugshot galleries, and bought and sold by data brokers as an increasingly valuable data commodity. The result is "digital punishment," where mere suspicion or a brush with the law can have lasting consequences. This analysis describes the transformation of criminal records into millions of data points, the commodification of this data into a valuable digital resource, and the impact of this shift on people, society, and public policy. The consequences of digital punishment, as described in hundreds of interviews detailed in this book, lead people to purposefully opt out of society as they cope with privacy and due process violations"--

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction

Author: Margaret Colgate Love

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781539292913

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"No longer can any person involved in the criminal justice system ignore the vast array of restrictions and disqualifications that are triggered by a criminal conviction. Judges, defense lawyers, prosecutors, probation officials and, of course, accused persons themselves must recognize that much more is at stake in a criminal prosecution than the court-imposed sentence. Even minor offenses trigger serious and potentially life-altering statutory and regulatory penalties. These so-called 'collateral consequences' are scattered throughout statutes, regulations, and municipal ordinances. They are difficult to find, and are too frequently ignored during plea negotiations and at sentencing. When it becomes apparent how many opportunities and privileges have been lost as a result of a conviction there may be little the convicted person can do about it. For this reason, collateral consequences have become an increasingly important part of civil practice areas as diverse as employment, government contracts, civil rights, immigration, housing, and family law. This volume seeks to ensure that the parties involved in a criminal case can identify and understand the full range of disabilities and disqualifications that accompany conviction. It also seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for civil practitioners whose clients are seeking to mitigate the effects of collateral consequences, as well as policy advocates and public officials seeking to reform the way the legal system treats those with a conviction record."--Page ix.

The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow

Author: Michelle Alexander

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1620971941

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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.