How Long Does It Take For Your Record To Clear After Expungement? Attorney Matthew Brown from Combs Waterkotte answers the most commonly asked question, “How long does it take for your record to clear after expungement?”
Interview Transcript
Jessica Ambuehl: All right, so let’s say someone’s record has been expunged. How long until they will actually see it being cleared on their record?
Matt Brown: Well, that depends.
There’s several agencies that are named in the expungement. You’re talking your local police municipality, the local sheriff’s department, the prosecuting attorney’s office, in some cases the FBI, the REJIS Commission. So it varies.
From start to finish, for us to do what we need to do to get to court, you’re probably looking at about 120 to 180 days. And that varies depending on the judge’s calendar.
Once we get that order of expungement and then we send that off to the very various agencies that need to expunge your record, at that point it’s out of our hands. Some agencies can have your record wiped in two weeks. Some it could take several months. It just depends on how efficient that particular agency is.
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