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Expunge Criminal Record in Florida
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W.F. "Casey" Ebsary, Jr.
1101 Channelside Drive, Suite 244,
Tampa, FL 33602 USA
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Expunge Criminal Record in Florida
We can seal or expunction criminal arrest records so they don't come up on criminal background checks. We represent clients in ALL counties statewide in Florida! If you are eligible to seal or expunge your criminal record, we can help you clean up your record. Do NOT let past mistakes affect your future! Call Toll Free Now 1-877-793-9290
Effective August 1, 2010, the Florida Legislature passed a new law that places new requirements on persons who work with vulnerable populations. State and national criminal history information is available to governmental agencies for licensing and employment as required under Florida law. If you need more information on this, you may contact the agency that governs the type of employment in which you are interested. For example, if you are interested in working for an elementary school, you would contact the local school district; if you are interested in a concealed weapon permit, you would contact the Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services/Division of Licensing where this licensing occurs.
Criminal History Records; Expunction And Sealing Policy And Administrative Procedures
(1) Non-judicial records of arrest made contrary to law or by mistake will be administratively expunged by the Department, upon application by the arresting law enforcement agency, or by the person arrested or, in the case of a minor child, the parent or legal guardian of the minor person arrested.
(2) Application for administrative expunction requires either that the arresting law enforcement agency has determined that the arrest was made contrary to law or by mistake; or that a court of competent jurisdiction has entered a final order finding that the arrest was made contrary to law or by mistake.
(3) An application for administrative expunction must be in writing. If submitted by the arresting law enforcement agency, the application shall be on agency letterhead, and signed by the head or chief law enforcement officer of the arresting agency or his or her authorized designee. An application submitted by the person arrested or the parent or legal guardian of the minor person arrested, must be in writing and must identify the relationship of the person signing the application to the person arrested.
(4) A supporting endorsement of an application submitted by the person arrested or the parent or legal guardian of the minor person arrested, must be in writing, on agency letterhead, and signed by the head or chief law enforcement officer of the arresting agency or his or her authorized designee or by the state attorney of the judicial circuit in which the arrest occurred or his or her authorized designee.
(5) An application for administrative expunction submitted by the arresting law enforcement agency, or the supporting endorsement in the case of an application submitted by the person arrested or the parent or legal guardian of the minor person arrested, shall identify the arrest to be expunged by providing the following information.
(6) If the person was arrested on a warrant, or capias the request for an administrative expunction, or the supporting endorsement of an application submitted by the person arrested or the parent/legal guardian of the minor person arrested, may be made by the sheriff of the county where the warrant, or capias was issued or his/her designee, or by the state attorney of the judicial circuit where the warrant, or capias was issued or his/her designee.
(7) When an administrative expunge application meets the statutory requirements, the Department will notify the arresting agency, which is then responsible for expunging its records of the arrest, and for notifying any other agency to which it provided the criminal history record information that is the subject of the administrative expunction.
(8) No application or endorsement made under this section shall be admissible as evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise be construed in any way as an admission of liability in connection with an arrest.
(9) The procedures by which an individual may secure an administrative correction of the criminal history record pertaining to the individual are set out in Chapter 11C-8, F.A.C. Non-criminal arrest records which are mistakenly or improperly forwarded to the Department for processing and retention as criminal history records will be removed as an administrative correction by the Department.
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