One of the best things you can do for your child is to get his or her juvenile records sealed as soon as possible.

The  benefits of sealing your juvenile records are as follows:

1. When your child's records are sealed, the records of arrest, detention, prosecution and conviction are physically sealed off and/or destroyed.
   
2. You are authorized by law to say you have never been convicted.
   
3. You can start adulthood on a "clean" state.
   
4. You can help prevent losing a good job because of a prior juvenile matter.

 

 

To be eligible your child must be 18 years old or 5 years must have passed from the last arrest or discharge from probation.

 

You must show you have been rehabilitated. In other words, your child has neither had any recent contact with the police nor participated in any further criminal activity.

 

Due to recent changes in the law, certain offenses are no longer sealable. The court shall not order the person's records sealed in any case in which the person has been found by the juvenile court to have committed an offense listed in subdivision (b) of Section 707 when he or she had attained 14 years of age or older.

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