HB 67

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of the Act to the contrary and cumulative with any rights to expungement or sealing of criminal records, whenever a person has been convicted of or placed on supervision for an offense, other than a capital offense, or for a violation of an ordinance of a unit of local government and 20 years has elapsed since the completion of the person's sentence or term of supervision and the person has not been convicted of or placed on supervision for any misdemeanor or felony offense or misdemeanor ordinance violation within such period, he or she may, upon verified petition to the chief judge of the circuit where the person had been convicted, any judge of the circuit designated by the Chief Judge, or in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the presiding trial judge at the defendant's trial, have a court order entered expunging the record of arrest from the official records of the arresting authority and order that the records of the clerk of the circuit court and the Department of State Police be sealed until further order of the court upon good cause shown or as otherwise provided by law, and the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk in connection with the arrest and conviction for the offense for which he had been charged, but the order shall not affect any index issued by the circuit court clerk before the entry of the order.