Courts are empowered to order the expungement of a record in many different situations and for many different reasons. Unfortunately, prior to 2011 no single point of expunged record collection existed in the United States of America. Consequently, anytime a record was expunged, an order was filed in an individual case and the individual courthouse would eliminate the record in question from their bulk data records database according to their regular update schedule.
However, that data elimination would not necessarily eliminate the record from the thousands of files and databases downloaded from the courthouse prior to the expungement of the record. In an effort to establish a clearinghouse for expunged records filed across the country, several leading organizations of the consumer reporting industry formed a national expungement clearinghouse designed to further protect consumers from the untimely or erroneous reporting of an expunged record.
PeopleFacts, through its national criminal database, is proud to participate in contributing expunged records to that clearinghouse and to receiving regular updates of expunged records from the clearinghouse in addition to receiving expungements from the original public record sources.
This is yet one more way that PeopleFacts has collaborated with industry leaders to create innovative solutions designed to protect consumer rights while continuing to report public record information.
