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Clean Slate

Pardon Project

Clean Slate is an Administrative restriction on public access to criminal records.  It prevents potential employers and the public at large from seeing the record of any arrests which did not result in a conviction and also hides some Summary and low-level Misdemeanors.

  • The Clerk of Courts should automatically Clean Slate arrests which did not result in convictions. Sect. 9122.2


  • The Clerk of Courts should automatically Clean Slate Pennsylvania  successfully completed ARD, PWV and Diversion Programs because program success means that the arrest did not result in a conviction. Sect. 9122.2


  • If you are free of convictions for 10 years you may file a Petition with the Clerk of Courts asking for the Clean Slate of any Summary conviction.  Like an Expungement, the District Attorney will have an opportunity to review your Petition and it will scheduled for a hearing.  Rule 791


  • If you are free of convictions for 10 years you may file a Petition with the Clerk of Courts asking for the Clean Slate of any Third Degree Misdemeanor and any Ungraded Misdemeanor (drug possession cases and some DUIs).  Like an Expungement, the District Attorney will have an opportunity to review your petition and it will scheduled for a hearing.


Even after a record is hidden from public access by Clean Slate, the full record is still available to law enforcement.

If you have a case or an arrest which should have been automatically Clean Slated you may inquire of the Clerk of Courts or file a Clean Slate Petition.


For more information, write us!  PardonMeBeaver@gmail.com