Are expunged criminal records actually destroyed?
A. Expunged records are not destroyed. Rather, they are segregated. That is, they are moved to a special location for expunged records. When an ordinary record search is made, records kept in this special location are not accessed. Thus the results of this ordinary search will be a return of “NO RECORD.
A. Expunged records are not destroyed. Rather, they are segregated. That is, they are moved to a special location for expunged records. When an ordinary record search is made, records kept in this special location are not accessed. Thus the results of this ordinary search will be a return of NO RECORD.