Expungement for persons less than eighteen years of age at time of offense
If someone was under 18 years old when they were arrested or convicted for prostitution, they can ask the court to erase those records. The court will erase the records if the person was under 18 or was being forced or controlled by someone else at the time. Once the records are erased, that person does not have to tell anyone about the arrest or conviction ever again, and it is treated as if it never happened.
610.131. for persons less than eighteen years of age at time of . — 1. the of section 610.140 to the contrary, a person who at the time of the offense was under the age of eighteen, and has guilty or has been for the offense of prostitution under section 567.020 may apply to the court in which he or she pled guilty or was sentenced for an to from all all recordations of his or her , , trial, or . If the court that such person was under the age of eighteen or was acting under the , as defined in section 566.200, of an when committing the offense that resulted in a or conviction under section 567.020, the court shall enter an order of expungement.
2. Upon granting of the order of expungement, the records and files maintained in any or court in an of the under this section shall be confidential and only available to the parties or by order of the court for . The effect of such order shall be to restore such person to the status he or she occupied prior to such arrest, plea, or conviction and as if such event had never taken place. No person as to whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any of any law to be guilty of or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of his or her failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest, plea, trial, conviction, or expungement in response to any inquiry made of him or her for any purpose whatsoever and no such inquiry shall be made for relating to an expungement under this section.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2018 S.B. 793, A.L. 2019 H.B. 397)
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