SEALING ARREST RECORDS
Information you should know about sealing arrest records. SEALING ARREST RECORDS-DETENTION ONLY
In any case in which a person is arrested and released and the officer is either (1) satisfied that there are insufficient grounds for making a criminal complaint against the person arrested or (2) the person was arrested only for being under the influence of a controlled substance or drug and the person is delivered to a facility or hospital for treatment and no further proceedings are desirable and no accusatory pleading is filed charging him with an offense, the person shall be issued a certificate by the law enforcement agency which arrested him describing the action as a detention. Any reference to the action as an arrest shall be deleted from the arrest records of the arresting agency and of the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation of the Department of Justice. Thereafter, any such record of the action shall refer to it as a detention.
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