Expungment, Expungement, or Expunction?
The terminology concerning clearing your criminal record regularly makes some confusion. Many people struggle trying to learn the differences linking the terms as most states have varying definitions and in turn, all of them may have a different effect. In one disorder expungement may call to completely ruin the record and all related materials, while it may only hide it from the public eye in the next. Likewise, the sealing of a record may always allow regime officials access while elsewhere it will be ruined after a certain time period has expired. Then to make matters extra complicated, there are terms that have different spellings that are synonymous. One of the most commonly misspelled and misunderstood terms is Expungement.
Expungement is regularly incorrectly spelled expungment and exspongement, but in some states expunction is really a right spelling. In Texas for example, receiving an expunction would yield the same results as having an expungement granted in Illinois. See the resources below to view a glossary of terms like this or to check your criminal record expungement eligibility.
Resources: Criminal Record Glossary