AR HB1472

Amends Arkansas Code § 9-27-309 to change the retention period for juvenile delinquency records involving violence from "offenses for which a juvenile could have been tried as an adult" to specifically "a felony involving violence as defined under § 5-4-501"

Requires records of delinquency adjudications for felonies involving violence to be kept for 10 years after the last adjudication of delinquency or the date of a guilty plea or finding of guilt as an adult, after which they may be expunged

Allows courts to expunge other juvenile records at any time and mandates expungement of all records upon a juvenile's twenty-first birthday for non-violent delinquency, dependency-neglect, and families in need of services cases

Defines "expunge" to mean destruction of records

Approved March 13, 2023