Expungement and Sealing criminal records is a technique that allows lower risk offenders ( petty crime) to have offenses removed from their criminal record. Sealing is the process where the court can have your criminal record close and it takes a court order for it to be opened. As for Expungement is where the courts have a certain crime deleted and/or wipe clean and the offense will never show. I personally would be more inclined to go with an expungement compared to sealing records. Expungements clear the record completely; more or less regardless of who seeking background check on a person. Whereas Sealing records (depending on who) conducting the check will find criminal offenses and that would be held adjust the person. Important to mention,
