expungement
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- noun
- /ɪkˈspʌndʒmənt/
- Formal
:
expurgación
- The lawyer filed for the expungement of her client's criminal record to help him start fresh.
- expungement statutes
- expungement laws
Examples
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Very few people actually qualify for an expungement, and this video explains the most common examples of successful cases.
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If your charges were dropped, you would potentially be eligible for a record expungement.
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Essentially, expungement is a vehicle used in state court that allows an individual to erase his or her criminal record.
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First, if you are arrested but the district attorney declines to prosecute, you may be eligible for an expungement.
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Private databases used for background checks are not always updated to reflect exonerations, and expungement of records is not automatic.
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Although a policy that allows for the expungement of isolated or minor acts of juvenile delinquency may not raise some of the problems discussed in this article, current statutes tend to aggressively expunge records full of serious and repeated criminal conduct.
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Many former offenders are eager to pursue expungement so that they can gain better employment opportunities.
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The new legislation makes the expungement process more accessible for individuals seeking to clear their records.
Synonyms
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The act of removing writing or information from a document
Removing information from a record so it no longer appears
Removing information completely from a record
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expungement comes from the parts ex- 'out' and pungere 'to prick', which gave the old idea of 'pricking out' an entry from a book, like removing a line. So in law an expungement is the process that removes a record so it is treated 'as if it never existed'.