Wisconsin Department of Justice Must Expunge Arrest Records
Sunday, March 1st, 2020 -- 9:35 AM
The Wisconsin Department of Justice must expunge arrest records of people who aren’t charged from its criminal database, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.According to the Associated Press, the decision centers around Demonta Antonio Hall of Milwaukee. According to court documents, Hall was arrested in 2015 for possession of an electronic weapon but prosecutors decided not to charge him two days after the arrest. When he was arrested he had an outstanding warrant for a traffic citation. He pleaded guilty and paid a fine on the same day prosecutors decided not to charge him in the weapons arrest. Hall was arrested again in 2017, this time for second-degree sexual assault.
Two days after the arrest prosecutors decided not to charge him. At the time of that arrest he again had an outstanding warrant, this time for disorderly conduct. He was fined in connection with that offense. The Justice Department fused all the arrests and convictions into one file in its criminal database in accordance with agency procedures. The database is a public record that forms the basis of criminal background checks.
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