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Criminal Record Expungements

Don’t be haunted by your criminal past. Let Attorney Tasha Reed Outlaw help you clean up your record. Through the expungement process, you can legally seal your records, removing unnecessary roadblocks in your life. 

An arrest, charge, or conviction can make it difficult to obtain jobs, housing, or loans; purchase or carry a firearm; or improve your life in general. But your criminal record does not have to define or limit you. Indiana expungement law allows you to clean up your record so you can move forward with your life and achieve your goals.

Unlike pardons, which forgive an offense, expungements in Indiana seals the records relating to an arrest, charge, or conviction after the individual has performed all obligations in that matter. Often called the Indiana Second Chance Law, Indiana expungement law lets you start again without the baggage a criminal record can bring.

Indiana expungement law provides broader expungement relief than in many other states. Whereas others may provide limited misdemeanor and felony relief, misdemeanor or felony pardons, only misdemeanor relief, or no relief at all, Indiana is among a handful of states that provides a process for expunging records of all misdemeanors and most felonies.
What is Expungement?
Expungement is the legal process of sealing the records of your criminal history. If you have a criminal record, potential employers, landlords, courts, and licensing organizations can ask you questions about your criminal past or access your criminal record through background checks or sources such as the state’s online case history portal.

If you obtain an expungement, those records are sealed from all but official government access, and you are under no legal obligation to answer questions from prospective employers, landlords, school applications, lending authorities, or other civilians about criminal arrests, charges or convictions in your expungement order. In short, an Indiana expungement attorney can help you obtain a successful petition for expungement to clean up your record and give you a second chance without your past getting in the way.

You must file a separate petition for expungement in each county in which an arrest, charge, juvenile adjudication, or conviction occurred, and you must consolidate all expungement petitions filed in a single county.

Significantly, expungement is a one-time deal; meaning you can only request expungement in Indiana once. All of the records you wish to have expunged must be listed on your petition. If you wish to expunge records in different counties, you must file a petition for expungement in each county where you have records you wish to expunge, and you must file all of the petitions within a one-year period.

Given these restrictions and the complexities of Indiana expungement law, working with an experienced Indiana expungement attorney is critical to make sure your request covers as much of your criminal history as possible, meets all the requirements of the Indiana Rules of Trial Procedure, and is appropriately and timely filed.

Attorney Tasha Reed Outlaw represents clients throughout the State of Indiana and routinely assists clients with evaluating their eligibility for expungement, and is with clients every step of the way of the expungement process through to completion. We can help you with all aspects of the expungement process:

• Confirming that you qualify for an expungement
• Gathering your case records
• Researching your criminal history
• Gathering any other necessary court documents
• Preparing your expungement petition
• Arguing on your behalf in court
• Distributing notice of your expungement to state agencies
• Distributing notice of your expungement to backgroundchecks.com, one of the largest criminal background databases, to request that the expunged arrest/charges/convictions be removed for their database

A criminal history, even a record of an arrest, can follow you for the rest of your life. It can keep you from certain jobs, firearms licenses, and other privileges and tarnish your reputation. And, given that our world is becoming more connected, your criminal history can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection who knows where to look. Why let them? And why let your criminal history hold you back?

Now is the time to act! To determine your eligibility to file for expungement and permanently seal your criminal records, you need to contact an Indiana expungement attorney from our team. We stand ready to provide our clients with trusted representation and accurate information regarding their eligibility to file. Our firm can answer any questions you have regarding record sealing and help provide you with a favorable resolution to your case.  Contact Attorney Tasha Reed Outlaw to schedule a consultation today.  You can also read and learn more about the Indiana Expungement Process before scheduling an individual consultation.