SB1640 Summary

• Amends the Criminal Identification Act to allow petitioners to expunge records of arrests and charges not initiated by arrest when the underlying conduct was later decriminalized.

• Adds qualified probation successfully completed as a new eligible category for expungement under Section 5.2(b)(1)(iv), with a 5-year waiting period following satisfactory termination.

• Maintains existing expungement and sealing procedures, timelines, and exclusions for sexual offenses, DUI violations, and other specified crimes.

• Applies drug testing requirements only to certain felony sealing and expungement petitions, not to immediate sealing petitions for acquittals or dismissals.

• Preserves provisions for sealing records of trafficking victims, identity theft victims, and those receiving pardons or certificates of eligibility from the Prisoner Review Board.