Expungement and Criminal Records: State-Specific Information
Below you will find state-specific information on criminal records and expungement (where available online), from sources such as state judiciaries, attorneys general, and state police agencies.
| Alabama | Background Check System (Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center) |
| Alaska | Criminal Records FAQs (Alaska Department of Public Safety) Request to Seal Criminal Justice Information [PDF file} (Alaska Department of Public Safety) |
| Arizona | Criminal History Records (State of Arizona – Department of Public Safety) Criminal History FAQs (State of Arizona – Department of Public Safety) |
| Arkansas | Criminal Background Check (Arkansas State Police) |
| California | Clean Up Your Criminal Record (California Courts Self-Help Center) Petition and Order for Expungement [PDF file] (California Courts Self-Help Center) |
| Colorado | Forms: Sealing of Criminal Records (Colorado Judicial Branch) |
| Connecticut | Connecticut Law About Criminal Records (Connecticut Judicial Branch) Erasure of Criminal Records (CT Statute) (Connecticut General Statutes) |
| Delaware | Expungement of Criminal Records (Delaware Code) |
| District of Columbia | Sealing and Expungement of Records (Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia) Criminal Record Sealing Act of 2006 [PDF file] |
| Florida | Seal and Expunge Process (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) Obtaining Criminal History Information (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) |
| Georgia | Obtaining Criminal History Record Information (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) |
| Hawaii | Expungements (Hawaii Attorney General) |
| Idaho | Criminal History Information (Idaho State Police) |
| Illinois | Expungement Information (Office of the State Appellate Defender ) Expungement: General Guidelines [PDF file] (Illinois Attorney General) |
| Indiana | Limited Criminal History Search (Indiana State Police) |
| Iowa | Criminal History Records (Iowa Department of Public Safety) |
| Kansas | Criminal History Record Check (Kansas Bureau of Investigation) Frequent Questions: Criminal History (Kansas Bureau of Investigation) |
| Kentucky | Background Check Forms (Kentucky State Police) |
| Louisiana | Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information (Louisiana State Police) |
| Maine | Criminal History Records Requests (Maine Courts) |
| Maryland | Expungement (District Court of Maryland) |
| Massachusetts | Requests to Seal Files (General Laws of Massachusetts Ch. 276:100A) Sealing, Expungements, and Pardons (Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries) |
| Michigan | Getting an Adult Criminal Conviction Removed (Michigan Courts) |
| Minnesota | What is Criminal Expungement? (Minnesota Judicial Branch) Forms: Expungement of a Criminal Record (Minnesota Judicial Branch) |
| Mississippi | Expunction (MS Statute) |
| Missouri | Petition for Expungement of Arrest Records [PDF file] (Missouri Courts) |
| Montana | Background Checks (Montana Department of Justice) |
| Nebraska | How to find criminal history reports in Nebraska |
| Nevada | Sealing Records After Conviction, etc. (Nevada Revised Statutes) Sealing Nevada Criminal History Records [PDF file] (State of Nevada) |
| New Hampshire | Criminal Records FAQs (New Hampshire Department of Safety) |
| New Jersey | How to Expunge Your Criminal Record [PDF file] (New Jersey Judiciary) |
| New Mexico | New Mexico State Central Repository for Criminal History (New Mexico Department of Public Safety) |
| New York | Personal Criminal History Record Review Program (New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services) |
| North Carolina | North Carolina Offender Information (North Carolina Department of Correction) |
| North Dakota | Criminal History Record Information (North Dakota Attorney General) |
| Ohio | Criminal Justice Information System (Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services) |
| Oklahoma | Expungement Questions (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation) Criminal History FAQs (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation) |
| Oregon | How Do I Clear My Juvenile or Criminal Record? (Oregon Courts) Clearing Your Record (Oregon State Bar ) |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History (State of Pennsylvania) |
| Rhode Island | Criminal Information Search (Judiciary of Rhode Island) |
| South Carolina | State Criminal Records Check (State of South Carolina) |
| South Dakota | Computerized Criminal History System (South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation) |
| Tennessee | Order for the Expungement of Criminal Offender Record [PDF file] (Tennessee Supreme Court) |
| Texas | Crime Records Service (Texas Department of Public Safety) |
| Utah | Expunging a Record (Utah Courts) |
| Vermont | Expungement-Sealing-Pardon Information (Vermont Criminal Information Center) |
| Virginia | Instructions for Petition for Expungement [PDF file] (Virginia Courts) |
| Washington | Criminal History Records (Washington State Patrol) |
| West Virginia | Expungement of certain criminal convictions; procedures; effect (WV Statute) Expungement of criminal record upon full and unconditional pardon (WV Statute) Petition for Expungement of Criminal Records [PDF file] |
| Wisconsin | Pardons, Etc.[includes links to expungement information] (Wisconsin State Law Library) |
| Wyoming | Criminal History Checks (Wyoming Attorney General) |
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