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Getting your Texas adult criminal record expunged involves several steps, starting with obtaining a copy of your criminal record (aka ‘rap sheet’), fingerprinting, and filing a petition of expunction in the same court where the charges were originally filed.
→ Read MoreTo seal your juvenile criminal record in Texas, you must go to the Clerk’s office in the juvenile court where your case was heard and get an ‘Application for Sealing of Files and Records. The clerk will tell you what procedures and processes are followed and what form to file. If you have juvenile criminal records in a justice or municipal court you can file for expunction when you turn 17.
→ Read MoreIf your case in Texas is ineligible for an expunction, you will have to obtain an ‘Order of Non-Disclosure’. An order of non-disclosure does not physically destroy any of your criminal records. But it does restrict when and to whom your criminal information can be released to and viewed.
→ Read MoreIn Texas, if you were wrongfully arrested, or found not guilty, or charges were dismissed, or were arrested but later won an appeal or received a Governor’s pardon, you are eligible to completely clear your adult criminal record history. The process is called ‘expunction’ (also known as ‘expungement’). Motions to seal are available to a juvenile’s criminal records.
→ Read MoreTexas implemented a records system designed to limit access to juvenile criminal records after you turn 21. Called ‘Automatic Restriction of Access to Records’ (ARAR), your records are not destroyed or sealed but they can be viewed by criminal justices agencies, only for a criminal justice purpose, such as prosecuting crimes and screening potential employees of the criminal justice system.
→ Read MoreIn the case of juvenile criminal records, Texas law lets you seal some convictions after a waiting period. Another law lets you expunge some criminal records (i.e., minor alcohol violations) handled in municipal or justice courts.
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