Free Online Help to Clear Criminal Records
LIFT Wisconsin’s Legal Tune Up helps address civil legal problems for free from a smartphone or computer. The Legal Tune Up tool can help remove eligible criminal records from CCAP (the Wisconsin Circuit Courts’ online public records database known as Consolidated Court Automation Program) by:
✅ Easily and quickly displays your CCAP records for review
✅ Allows you to determine if you can remove Wisconsin criminal records
✅ Provides the correct form to file with the court
Background checks are used in hiring, college admissions, and by landlords – removing these records can increase opportunities to get new jobs, an education, or housing.
No matter what you look like or where you come from, most of us believe in second chances. But criminal records – even when someone is found not guilty or had the charges dismissed – can be found online, leading to bias.
In Wisconsin, records eligible for removal from the Wisconsin Circuit Courts’ online public records database (CCAP) are those:
– when someone is charged with an offense that is dismissed
– when someone is charged with an offense that is dismissed
– the charge/arrest/case is older than two years (if the charge is not associated with another charge that resulted in a conviction or if it was read into the record by a judge that it should be removed from CCAP when a case was dismissed)
– for records that are not for you (i.e., mistaken identity)
– for records that are not for you (i.e., mistaken identity)
– for safety reasons, people can also petition the court of original jurisdiction to remove their personal information from CCAP in a civil case if they can demonstrate that a potential exists for physical or bodily harm or a threat of harm to themselves, a family member, or a member of the immediate household.
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