If your record has been expunged and you are asked “have you ever been convicted of a crime” on a job application, what should the answer be?
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If your record has been expunged and you are asked “have you ever been convicted of a crime” on a job application, what should the answer be?
Asked on August 24, 2012 under Criminal Law, Pennsylvania
Answers:
Andrew Goldberg
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
The answer is that you have no criminal conviction. A successful completion of an ARD Program does not result in a conviction. As to an "arrest", the answer is that you have been arrested, UNLESS you successfully completed the ARD Program AND you fild a Petition For Expungement AND the petition was granted by a Judge ( i.e., the Judge signed a formal Order granting the expungement and ordering the police agencies to destroy the records of your arrest). Some job applications do now specifically ask if you've ever been accepted into an ARD Program. The answer to that is yes.
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