Most cases are not sealed from the outset - so anything already out there is indexed forever, regardless of current legal status. This was the case at least wh

Most cases are not sealed from the outset - so anything already out there is indexed forever, regardless of current legal status. This was the case at least when I looked into in ~20 years ago. There simply was no point in following the expungement process since all the usefulness of it was already gone due to the records existing in private databases.