Re: Appointment Denied Due to Background- is There a Way to Appea
This is from a Florida attorney and not an insurance agent taking an educated guess.
Expunge means its gone forever. Never existed. File gets erased from the clerks office. The sheriff who arrested said person is ordered to delete their files. Its shredded and taken out of computers. But only certain felonies are eligible for expungement. There is a statutue which says which ones can't be expunged.
Sealing on the other hand the files exist with the clerk but you must get a court order to open them. So the records exist
If the person gets asked about a conviction and their case was expunged. 1. They were never convicted (bc you can't expunge something if you were adjudicated guilty) 2. The records don't exist anywhere.
But if the problem is when they were asked if ever arrested. Bc tech they have to say yes
This is from a Florida attorney and not an insurance agent taking an educated guess.
Expunge means its gone forever. Never existed. File gets erased from the clerks office. The sheriff who arrested said person is ordered to delete their files. Its shredded and taken out of computers. But only certain felonies are eligible for expungement. There is a statutue which says which ones can't be expunged.
Sealing on the other hand the files exist with the clerk but you must get a court order to open them. So the records exist
If the person gets asked about a conviction and their case was expunged. 1. They were never convicted (bc you can't expunge something if you were adjudicated guilty) 2. The records don't exist anywhere.
But if the problem is when they were asked if ever arrested. Bc tech they have to say yes