Code of Alabama - Title 15: Criminal Procedure - Chapter 27 - Expungement

• Section 15-27-1 Petition to expunge records - Misdemeanor criminal offense, traffic violation, municipal ordinance violation
  (a) A person who has been charged with a misdemeanor criminal offense, a violation, a traffic violation, or a municipal ordinance violation may file a...
• Section 15-27-2 Petition to expunge records - Felony offense
  (a) A person who has been charged with a felony offense, except a violent offense as defined in Section 12-25-32, may file a petition in...
• Section 15-27-3 Submission of sworn statement and records; service
  (a) A petition filed under this chapter shall include a sworn statement made by the person seeking expungement under the penalty of perjury stating that...
• Section 15-27-4 Administrative filing fee; indigency
  (a) In addition to any cost of court or docket fee for filing the petition in circuit court, an administrative filing fee of three hundred...
• Section 15-27-5 Objections; hearing; ruling
  (a) If the prosecuting authority or victim files an objection to the granting of a petition under this chapter, the court having jurisdiction over the...
• Section 15-27-6 Order of expungement; certification; inspection of expunged records
  (a) Except as provided in Section 15-27-10, upon the granting of a petition pursuant to this chapter, the court, pursuant to Section 15-27-9, shall order...
• Section 15-27-7 Archive of records; withdrawal of records from national criminal records repository
  (a) Upon receipt of the order of expungement, a criminal justice agency in possession of records subject to the order shall immediately forward the records...
• Section 15-27-8 Records forwarded to and retained by Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center
  Once the records are expunged pursuant to this chapter, the records shall be forwarded to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center in a manner prescribed...
• Section 15-27-9 Records
  For purposes of this chapter, the term record includes, but is not limited to, all of the following: (1) Arrest records. (2) Booking or arrest...
• Section 15-27-10 Maintenance of files, reports, etc., by law enforcement agencies, officials, etc
  Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a law enforcement agency or official, district attorney or a prosecuting authority, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, or...
• Section 15-27-11 Personal information subject to expungement
  An order of expungement, pursuant to this chapter may include, but is not limited to, the petitioner's true name, all aliases, current physical address, date...
• Section 15-27-12 Prerequisites to expungement
  No order of expungement shall be granted unless all terms and conditions, including court ordered restitution, are satisfied and paid in full, including interest, to...
• Section 15-27-13 Annual report
  Upon request, the Administrative Office of Courts shall provide an annual report to the Legislature specifying the number of applicants requesting expungement, the number of...
• Section 15-27-14 Applicability - Alabama Securities Commission
  Nothing in this chapter shall be applicable to the Alabama Securities Commission, its statutes, rules, regulations, policies, information repository, or records, nor shall any expungement...
• Section 15-27-15 Applicability - Right to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearm
  An expungement order shall not entitle an individual to ship, transport, possess, or receive a firearm. Any person whose record of conviction is expunged pursuant...
• Section 15-27-16 Disclosure of information from expunged file without a court order; liability
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an individual who knows an expungement order was granted pursuant to this chapter and who intentionally and...
• Section 15-27-17 Filing under false pretenses
  Upon determination by the court that a petition for expungement was filed under false pretenses and was granted, the order of expungement shall be reversed...
• Section 15-27-18 Applicants for position in law enforcement, etc
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an applicant for a position in law enforcement or corrections or a law enforcement or correctional officer shall...
• Section 15-27-19 Adoption of rules
  The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission shall adopt rules for the submission of data from criminal justice agencies necessary to complete the criminal history...
• Section 15-27-20 Release of expunged records for use in certain civil suits; hearing
  Records that have been expunged pursuant to this chapter shall be released for use in a civil suit filed by a person for whom expungement...

Last modified: May 3, 2021