Criminal records; sealing of offenses resulting in a deferred & dismissed disposition or conviction.

Sealing of offenses resulting in a deferredand dismissed disposition or conviction. Provides that a personshall not pay any fees or costs for filing a sealing criminalrecords petition. Under current law, a person is required to filean indigence petition for any fees or costs to be waived. The billalso eliminates the lifetime cap on the number of sealing petitionsthat may be filed. The bill reduces from seven years to three yearsfor a misdemeanor offense and from 10 years to seven years for a felony offense the minimum period of time between the offense tobe sealed and the filing of the sealing petition during which thepetitioner must not have been convicted of violating any law of theCommonwealth. The bill also adds convictions for (i) failure to paychild support, (ii) driving without a license, (iii) driving witha suspended or revoked license, and (iv) a misdemeanor violation of reckless driving to the list of offenses eligible for an automaticsealing. The bill also specifies that the sealing of records relatedto a conviction includes sealing any criminal history record informationand court records related to any violation of the terms and conditionsof a suspended sentence or probation for such conviction.