A criminal record can affect your life significantly by limiting your employment opportunities. This can prevent you from accessing career growth chances. Anyone can make bad choices, and unfortunately, yours affected your record. However, if you have paid your dues,...
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When can you expunge your record in Washington?
A criminal record act like a dark cloud hanging over your head for the rest of your life. It can bar you from securing a college admission, finding work and housing, owning a firearm or even participating in the electoral process. Even a conviction for a minor...
Life after the Vacation of a Conviction: Three Tips
Having a criminal record can affect your life in different ways, as it can limit your employment, housing and other opportunities. Luckily, In Washington, residents can apply for the vacation of a conviction. The court will clear the record of applicants who meet the...
Were you influenced by peer pressure as a teen?
It’s actually much easier to break the law than you think. If you’re a driver, can you really say with full confidence that you have never exceeded the speed limit? Can you be sure that you never made an error in judgment when you were younger? It’s difficult for a...
Does your criminal conviction qualify for expungement?
Can you get rid of a juvenile criminal record?
Childhood can seem like it comes and goes so fast. One moment you are playing with your friends. The next, you are officially an adult and expected to earn your own way. Unfortunately, any criminal charges you faced during your childhood will not go away so fast. At...
Expunging employees’ criminal records can benefit businesses too
While finding work with a criminal record can be difficult, many people in the Seattle-Tacoma area manage to do it. Obviously, having a steady income is a huge part of moving on from mistakes made in the past. But having a good job does not mean that your record is no...
Congress considers combining marijuana expungement, banking bills
Federal dollars for marijuana expungements A bill currently making its way through Congress called the Harnassing Opportunities for Pursuing Expungement (HOPE) Act would try to help rectify this. The bill would send money to states to fund marijuana-crime expungement...
Washington Supreme Court Recommends Sealing Juvenile Criminal Records
If an old conviction from adult criminal court following you around for years seems unfair, imagine if your conviction happened when you were 14 or 15. A mistake you made when you were a confused or immature teenager should not hold you back from getting an education,...
Attitudes toward expunging marijuana possession charges are changing
Over the past few years, more and more Americans have decided that marijuana should not be illegal. It was not so long ago that pot was illegal in all 50 states and under federal law. With states like Washington leading the way, cannabis is increasingly allowed for...