Florida Senate Bill 644 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Criminal Justice
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creating a procedure by which a person may seek a court order to seal and destroy an arrest record if the person is determined to be factually innocent of any charge arising out of the arrest; requiring that a petition for relief be heard within a certain time; authorizing the court, under certain circumstances, to grant relief to a petitioner in a case in which an accusatory pleading has been filed; authorizing a person, under certain circumstances, to file for relief if there is no conviction; requiring that the Department of Law Enforcement furnish forms to be used by persons applying for the destruction of their arrest records or for the written declaration that they are factually innocent; authorizing the court to open a sealed record in a civil procedure under certain circumstances; limiting the persons who have access to the sealed arrest records, etc.

Sealing and Destroying Certain Criminal Records

Sen. Gary Siplin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Criminal Justice
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 55
2011-11-18		Now in Criminal Justice
2011-11-18		References corrected to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Budget -SJ 55
2011-11-16		Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Budget
2011-10-24		Filed

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/644
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0644/BillText/Filed/HTML