CalWORKs Records Expungement Program & Eligibility Criteria

CalWORKs Records Expungement Program

The CalWORKs Record Expungement Program is an Interagency Agreement with the OPD. OPD provides expungement related services to CalWORKs clients which will improve their opportunities for employment.

The Expungement Program offers the following services to clients:

• Expungements
• Allows a defendant to withdraw his “guilty plea”, enter a “not guilty plea,” and obtain a dismissal.
• Generally, private employers not permitted to inquire about convictions which have been expunged.
• It does not erase the conviction or make it disappear
• Reduction of charges
• Resentencing and redesignations
• vacaturs, sealings, certificates of rehabilitation, and removal from 290 registry
• Request waiver and/or reduction of old fines and fees, and
• Immigration-specific relief guided by immigration attorney

Eligibility Criteria

 To be eligible for Expungement services, the client must be:

• An active CWES participant, and
• Charges eligible for expungement (no open cases, cannot be on probation or parole, and cannot currently be serving a sentence).