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Expunge

To destroy; blot out; obliterate; erase; efface designedly; strike out wholly. The act of physically destroying information—including criminal records—in files, computers, or other depositories.

expunge

verb abrade, annul, black out, blot out, cannel, cause to disappear, censor, cross off, cross out, delere, delete, destroy, dispose of, do away with, edit out, efface, eradicate, erase, excise, extinguish, extirpate, inducere, leave no trace, nullify, obliterate, oblitterare, put an end to, quash, quell, raze, remove, remove all sign of, remove all trace of, render illegible, rub out, scratch out, strike out, take out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out
Associated concepts: expunge the record

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study--Florida, Illinois, and Texas-- securing expungement is extremely

in the study, New York has by far the most favorable expungement laws.

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For mid-May 2009 through the end of 2011, expungement relief was granted in nearly every instance: 96.

One individual associated with a brokerage firm requested expungement 40 times, and arbitration panels granted such relief to that individual 35 times.

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collection has an expungement process outlined, the process is often

consistent policy of expungement, it may find itself in a similar

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And activists say the fight for expungement legislation has helped create a grassroots coalition for even broader criminal justice reform.

Seeing daylight: ex-offenders finally make political headway against Illinois' longtime support for tough-on-crime measures

Since 2006, Expungement Assistance Services (EAS) Technologies' mission has been to offer expungement and clemency opportunities to the millions of people with criminal records who seek an inexpensive and effective means to change their past in order to control their future.

ClearMYrecord.com Relaunches Service to Expedite Process of Expunging Criminal Records for Millions of Americans

18e (2002) (providing for expungement of juvenile criminal records for one-time offenders lacking felony convictions); H.

Information escrows

However, once every six to eight months would be ideal, as expungements are granted regularly.

The data-broker threat: proposing federal legislation to protect post-expungement privacy

Specifically, the PIABA report recommends the following: "FINRA needs to propose a rule change with respect to respondents and their counsel bargaining for in settlement negotiations or conditioning a settlement upon an investor's agreement to not oppose expungement or an agreement to expungement.

CyAlarming' Number of Brokers' Arbitration Records Wiped Clean: Study

We attempt to explain some of the results by offering a brief overview of current expungement laws and procedures in the four subject states.