To expunge or seal, what do you do?
By Lisa L. Dunn
Traffic Laws and Courts,
September 2013
It is your job to inform your client that in many instances the case should be expunged or sealed. First, you need to understand the difference between expunging a record and sealing a record. Second, you need to know where to look in the statute to determine if your client’s record can be expunged or if not expunged, then sealed.
Expungement reconsidered
By Joshua D. Carter
Bench and Bar,
June 2010
What is expungement good for? Such records are not available to employers through the official channels and, perhaps more importantly, it is illegal under the Illinois Human Rights Act for an employer to consider any criminal history information which has been ordered expunged or sealed.
Expungement reconsidered
By Joshua D. Carter
Human and Civil Rights,
May 2010
What is expungement good for? Such records are not available to employers through the official channels and, perhaps more importantly, it is illegal under the Illinois Human Rights Act for an employer to consider any criminal history information which has been ordered expunged or sealed.
It’s okay to expunge things….really
By Kathleen deGrasse & Wil Nagel
Government Lawyers,
June 2009
This article will provide a working definition of “record of arrest” and set forth the procedures Illinois criminal justice agencies should take when they are served with a petition for and order of expungement.
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