Expungement

  A record of an arrest or conviction can haunt a person forever. Applications for schools, jobs, and military service often ask if an applicant has a criminal record. Many people can solve this problem because they are eligible to clear (expunge) their New Jersey criminal record.

New Jersey law provides a limited right to expungement. The purpose of New Jersey’s expungement law is to give a person who has either one or very few convictions a fresh start. The law also provides for the removal of records of arrests where the arrest did not end in a conviction.

A record of an arrest or conviction can haunt a person forever. Applications for schools, jobs, and military service often ask if an applicant has a criminal record. Many people can solve this problem because they are eligible to clear (expunge) their New Jersey criminal record.

The law carefully defines who is eligible to expunge a criminal record. If you know that you are eligible for an expungement, we have the pro/se kit. An eligible person must prepare and file a Petition for Expungement and file it in the Superior Court in the county where the arrest or prosecution took place.

A judge then decides whether to issue an Expungement Order. An Expungement Order means that, with some exceptions, the criminal proceedings never happened. It also allows the person to fill out school, job, and military applications truthfully without having to reveal that he or she was once arrested or convicted. (LSNJ LAW).