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Originally Posted by Enchanterlingum
Sealed records don't mean shit, at least not in Kansas. I once had KBI agent quote me every single sealed juvenile conviction I ever had in response to me "lying" about my criminal history on a professional license application. Admittedly, the look on his face was pretty funny when I told him I was 11 in 1988.
You need an expungement.
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To clear things up a little. In Kansas every contact you have ever made with the police is entered into your record. THAT MEANS EVERY SINGLE CONTACT OF ANY KIND! That includes helping get the neighbors cat out of the tree and a cop shows up to help you, and he gets your name. EVERYTHING goes into the Kansas Data Base, and I assume it is the same in all the other states.
Now then, I do know that there are codes for each contact that only certain people are suppose to understand and only certain people that have various clearances can see some of the details.
The individual who told you about the specifics of your record was not suppose to tell you those things. Sealed means from the general public, and he should have kept his mouth shut. Sounds like he was trying to shake you up a little. The sealed records are available only to some people in law enforcement, or the prosecutor.
I was told directly by a person I know well that a lot of this information is used to help solve a crime. He even told me how many total contacts I had ever had from every law enforcement agency. Nothing to worry about, but scary.
The example given was a person complains about a neighbor's dog barking: time passes and someone shoots the neighbor - they come looking for the one who made the complaint, or look for anything else that would indicate he was or was not the one that shot the neighbor.