Can the Conviction Be Cleared in Your State, and How Soon

Seven cells of one row of the 51-row record-clearing dataset behind this section's chart: whether a misdemeanor, a felony or a DUI conviction can be cleared, the waiting period for a misdemeanor and for a felony, the relief the state offers and the statute behind it, the Clean Slate status and the filing fee. Each row was checked on October 14, 2026; a cell from the CCRC state summaries or the Clean Slate Initiative is marked "Secondary source" in the result, and the others were read from the statute.

The kind of conviction picks the eligibility cell. Its words are quoted as recorded, and the result reads its class from the leading word: yes, limited or no, with a "no" that goes on to name an available route reading as limited. For a DUI conviction the dataset records the rule in its own cell, with the statute section it rests on, for the states where one was read; elsewhere the result says the DUI rule is not confirmed rather than guessing from the misdemeanor rule.

The wait cells are written as years and count from the event each statute names: the end of the sentence, release, the conviction or the most recent conviction. The check takes the cell's leading figure, or its leading range, and sets the years you enter against it. The years are read as whole years since the sentence was completed, so "3 to 4 years" meets a 3-year wait and does not yet reach a 5-year one, and a wait that lands inside the range entered is reported as a matter of the exact date. Where the cell gives a range, the result says the offense class decides within it.

Several cells name more than one figure, one per offense class or route; the result quotes the whole cell, says it compared the leading figure, and leaves the rest visible. A cell that reads none, as the misdemeanor cells for Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Wisconsin do, is reported as no waiting period, and a felony cell that reads not available, as in Iowa, Maine, Montana, South Dakota and Texas, is reported as recording no path at all. A DUI conviction has no wait cell of its own, so the result compares a figure only when the DUI cell itself states one in years.

48 of the misdemeanor eligibility cells and 48 of the felony cells rest on the CCRC chart dated October 2021, and the result prints that date whenever it uses one of them. The relief and wait cells beside them were read in 2026, from the statute for 16 states and from CCRC's current state summaries for the rest, so a result that reads yes from the 2021 chart also shows the current route and wait. Where the two differ, read the newer cells.

It does not say whether any record qualifies. Exclusions by offense, the number of prior convictions, pending charges, outstanding fines and the court's discretion all sit outside these cells, and this check does not read the excluded-offense summary. It shows no attorney fee, because none is sourced, and it does not estimate how long a petition takes.

Learn the petition, application, request and automatic routes, with their statutes, in the guide on clearing a record, and see all states side by side in the chart.