In Illinois, the process of expungement allows individuals who have been convicted of certain crimes — usually misdemeanors and low-level felonies, including traffic violations — to have their records wiped clean. What is the general idea behind this? To give individuals a chance to have a clean record for employment or educational purposes that require an individual have no felony or misdemeanor convictions in their history.
Unfortunately, expungements are rarely successfully recorded to the extent that most individuals — and this could include judges and attorneys — think them to be. That’s something I learned through personal experience.
