Felony Arrest Records in California?
How long would information regarding an arrest be available as public record? I’m not sure if this varies according to location, given that it was a federal offense, but just for context I’ll say that the arrest was made by a PD in Orange County, CA. I know the information never gets expunged entirely; I’m more interested in if a university admissions committee (at USC) would have access to it. They ask specifically regarding felony arrests on their application.
Charges were filed, but I was exonerated before I even made it to my arraignment.
its on your record supposedly 7 years ,but i applied for this job in which in order to get hired i had to go thru a background check ,now what kept me from being hired was a charge i was never even convicted of 8 and half years before it was just a charge that was on my origanal charge sheet that was dropped in prelimanary hearing.
Under California law, if you are arrested and released without charges being filed you are legally NOT arrested, but only detained. (Pen C 849.5, 851.6.) Nothing in the statutes shows any difference if the arrest was for a federal offense. So if there is any information on file, it should show both the detention and the release, which means it was not an arrest.