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Why would your life change so much/in an instant? Does your state mark your arrest for such a minor warrant in some permanent record or such, without being able
by skinnymuch 7y ago
Why would your life change so much/in an instant? Does your state mark your arrest for such a minor warrant in some permanent record or such, without being able to do much about it? You’re not being charged for a felony.
DUIs are more serious as one example. I don’t know the extent to how you need to inform people like employers about it, but it hasn’t seemed to affect life in the medium or long term for people I know irl. The biggest issue is losing driving privileges for a decent amount of time. Which isn’t likely in your situation. Or the ones I’ve been in.
- sturgill 7y agoI simply didn’t want my car impounded while I was cuffed and put in the back of a police car. These were my undergrad years and I was in a different state studying (loosely defined). And there’s always a permanent record (short of expungement). “The background check for the job shows you were arrested; can you please explain?...” Honestly I don’t know how long stuff like that sticks around. And I’m also glad I never had to find out. It can be a funny story with a framed letter saying there’s no longer a warrant for my arrest. No Rick Perry mugshot pic circulating Facebook...
- snagglegaggle 7y agoIt sticks around forever. I'm not aware of any real expungement that exists anymore, too many people got mad that e.g. repeat DUI offenders would be sentenced as if they'd never had a DUI before. There's also 3rd party databases that nothing ever gets removed from. In that case, not great, but in a lot of other cases the situation now is probably worse.