SB 947

Abstract

Expungement of police and court records; acquittals.Provides that a court that enters a judgment acquitting a personof a criminal charge shall also enter an order requiring the expungement of the police and court records relating to the charge. Currently,such a person may file a separate petition for the expungement ofsuch records; however, except in certain cases involving misdemeanorcharges, the person is not entitled to an order of expungement, andthe court hearing the petition must find that the continued existenceand possible dissemination of such records causes or may cause circumstancesthat constitute a manifest injustice to such person before such anorder will be entered.