Congratulations, you are eligible to expunge dismissed charges or a diversion!

Before you can fill out the petition to expunge a charge or diversion, you must collect important court information for each charge. A petition is a document that is filed in court that asks a judge to do something. The expungement petition asks the judge to order the destruction of all public records related to your dismissed charge or diversion

Please call or visit the court clerk in the county where you went to court for each case and carefully collect the following information for each case so you can fill out your expungement petition. If you miss one piece of information, you may not be able to complete filling out the form and will have to go back to the clerk for the information.

For each charge, ask the clerk for a print out information for each charge and to give you the following information:

  • Your Name: Confirm with the clerk that your name is spelled correctly. Warning: Sometimes your name was spelled wrong in your arrest or court records. You need to spell your name exactly how it appears in the court records.
  • Your Charge: The exact name of each charge that was dismissed or diverted.
  • The Agency that Arrested You: Ask the clerk which agency arrested you. This could be a police department, the sheriff’s office, or another agency.
  • The Arrest Date: Ask the court for the arrest date. This is the date you were arrested.
  • The Filing Date: Ask the court for the filing date or the date when the case was filed in the court. This is not necessarily the same as the arrest date.
  • The Case Number: Each charge has a number assigned to it. This could be a general sessions warrant or docket number or a criminal court indictment number. Ask the clerk to show you the case number for your charge.
  • For Diversions only: Please find out what date your diversion was completed.
  • Your Identification or OCA Number: Each county will identify each person charged with a number. Counties have different names for this. Some call it your OCA number, others call it an IDN number, and others call it your identification number.

You will also need the following personal information to fill out your expungement petitions. Without this information, your petition may be rejected by the judge. Please have the following information ready:

  • social security number
  • address
  • birth date
  • phone number
  • email address

IMPORTANT:

  • If you wish to exit and come back to this form when you have all of the information above, you may download and/or print the attached document, which contains the list of required materials.
  • When you have all the information that is needed, please continue here to begin to fill out the expungement petition.
  • This site will save your information for 15 days to allow you to gather the information you need.
  • This is not a court website. Once you fill out the petition, you must save the document, print it, sign it, and follow the instructions to file it with the court.