A recent change to Indiana’s expungement law eliminates the need for persons arrested or charged with a criminal offense to petition to have their records expunged where there has been no conviction. Public Law 14-2022, which went into effect July 1st, amends IC 35-38-9-1 to provide for automatic expungement of…

On March 18, 2020, Senate Bill 47 was signed into law as P.L. 55. In its final form S.B. 47 contains the following provisions. Criminal expungement statute • IC 35-38-9-2 is amended to provide that if a court reduces a Class D or Level 6 felony to a misdemeanor, the…

The waiting period to expunge a misdemeanor conviction is five years from the date of the conviction. For a class D felony, the wait is eight years. What happens when a person succeeds in having his felony conviction converted to a misdemeanor? The wait time is five years, but when…

Previously, we reported on three bills affecting Indiana’s law on sealing criminal records. On January 17, 2020, the Senate Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law approved changes to one of those bills, Senate Bill No. 47. In its original form, S.B. 47 would amend IC 35-38-9-2 to provide that if…

Indiana lawmakers have introduced three bills affecting the state’s law on sealing criminal records. S.B. 22 Senate Bill No. 22, authored by Sen. Philip Boots of Crawfordsville, was introduced January 6, 2020. S.B. 22 would amend IC 35-38-9-10. It provides that if a person whose records have been expunged seeks…