If you’re found innocent, and the legal term is not guilty, if you’re found not guilty of a crime you have an absolute right to have your record cleared; it supposed to happen automatically. However, there are a lot of cases going through the system, there’s some bureaucracy involved and so sometimes things are overlooked.
In theory, you’re not supposed to have to do anything. If you’re found not guilty the records of your case should be destroyed which is the term expungement; expunge means completely destroyed, obliterated so there’s no trace of them.
In those instances, you should be able to contact the court, the solicitors office, the DA’s office and ask that the records be destroyed and that should happen automatically.
Some people who want to be extra cautious would call us and say, can you check on this. One of the things that we do, and there’s some small fees involved in this, is we will go back and run a criminal history. We’ll go and check the public index and we’ll check the places where records may appear just to confirm that they’re not there where they’re not supposed to be.
But basically yes, if you’ve been exonerated, found not guilty, you have an absolute right to have those records destroyed and cleared.
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