Automatic Misdemeanor Expungement for Traffic Tickets

[lfrye1]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Missouri

In 1988, I was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for not paying my speeding tickets. I'm currently applying for a job within the health care field in New York City. The job application questions if I have ever been charged with a felony or a misdemeanor. Since this was over 20 years ago, and for a traffic violation, what should I state on the application? Has this record een automatically expunged after so many years?

Thank you for your quick response to this question...

 

[I_Got_Banned]

Has this record een automatically expunged after so many years?

Probably not... There is no such thing as an automatic expungement of a midemeanor charge on one's record.

Some states allow you the ability to request expungement of a specific charge but it wont go away by itself.

Your best bet is to list it on the application, but then again, it all depends on how good of a background check they will run.

 

[LSCAP]

Tell the truth.

A number years ago, (I don’t remember when. Maybe late seventies.) the city reviewed the records of all the people who clean the public schools. I believe they wanted to make sure there were no pedophiles.
Of the four thousand members there were 39 who had some kind of criminal record. Including one who had spent fifteen years in jail for murder.

The only ones - three of them - that were fired were the people who lied and said they did not have a record. NOT the guy who had committed murder. He had served his time and admitted it on his application.

If you don’t tell the truth, and explain if you can, it can come back and bite you.

 

[LSCAP]

OOPS

I forgot to say The City. To most newyorkers NYC is The City. Capital letters.

 

[I_Got_Banned]

Tell the truth.

Tell the truth.

A more recent story, February, 2006, Radio Shack CEO get fired not for being e pedophile and not for failing to disclose a criminal record... He simply (or stupidly) lied on his resume!!!