Expungement and Record Sealing in Arizona: What’s Actually Available

Arizona does not have general expungement. If you have been told your criminal record can simply be erased in Arizona, that is not quite right. Arizona law provides several different forms of record relief, and the differences matter when deciding what you may qualify for and what the result can accomplish.

Three remedies are commonly grouped together under the word “expungement,” even though they work differently:

• A set-aside under A.R.S. § 13-905, which can set aside the judgment of guilt and release a person from certain penalties and disabilities resulting from

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