Do Government Agencies Have Access to Expunged Records?
Now before you say no, expunged means that they no longer exist, I must clarify that in my state it simply is used when they seal your record from the public. A court order must be received to view the contents.
I want to work at an airline but they do FBI and Customs background checks. Would my expunged case from when I was a juvenile show up?
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As the above poster indicated, Expungement only applies to public records and the record would be expunged from public records.
However, any job that you need a government security clearance for will be able to access any and all records, including juvenille ones. It depends why type of job you want to do, how long ago and what the charges are and is at the sole discretion or the airline whether or not they would choose to hire you. If you are now 30 and shoplifted with you were 15, they might not exclude you, but they could if they wanted to.
Expunged does not mean no longer exist it merely means that the public can not find it - the government is not the public and they do have access to it - the records will show them its expunged but it will be there.
if they were truly expunged, they were destroyed!!
The websters definition of "Expunge" is:
1 : to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
2 : to efface completely : DESTROY
3 : to eliminate (as a memory) from one's consciousness
To answer your question, if you have a record that was expunged it is GONE. Probably was shredded into little tiny pieces.
ok.just asked my husb who is a justice court judge...he says it is non-adjucated and would not show up in public records, or is not supposed to...especially in case of minors. They do that on minors all time when they go to a class to have a case expunged. A warrant has to be obtained for anyone to be able to see a expunged record. For a warrant to be signed by the judge he would have to see a very probable cause to sign it.
They are not destroyed, shredded, deleted, whatever, just not for public view or on state records.
The legal definition of a word does NOT equal the DICTIONARY meaning of a word.
"Expunged" in the legal sense does NOT mean it is gone.
Don't worry about it though, you can explain it. And the fact that you were a juvenile, and the fact that the record was expunged mitigates any negative inference that can be drawn.
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