California criminal law allows for the expungement of certain
juvenile delinquency records:
The arrest, juvenile court, probation department, and other agency records of a minor who had a juvenile court petition filed against him or her, who had contact with a probation officer, or who was taken before a law enforcement officer.
This does not include violations of the California Vehicle Code. Records of a person found in juvenile court or adult court to have committed an offense listed in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707(b) at age 14 or older may not be sealed or destroyed.
The Criminal Laws listed in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707(b):
(1)
Murder.
(2) Arson, as provided in subdivision (a) or (b) of
Section 451 of the Penal Code.
(3) Robbery.
(4)
Rape with force, violence, or threat of great bodily harm.
(5) Sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, or threat of great bodily harm.
(6)
A lewd or lascivious act as provided in subdivision (b) of
Section 288 of the Penal Code.
(7)
Oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace, or threat of great bodily harm.
(8) An offense specified in subdivision (a) of
Section 289 of the Penal Code.
(9) Kidnapping for ransom.
(10) Kidnapping for purposes of robbery.
(11) Kidnapping with bodily harm.
(12) Attempted murder.
(13) Assault with a firearm or destructive device.
(14) Assault by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.
(15) Discharge of a firearm into an inhabited or occupied building.
(16) An offense described in
Section 1203.09 of the Penal Code.
(17) An offense described in
Section 12022.5 or 12022.53 of the Penal Code.
(18) A felony offense in which the minor personally used a weapon described in any provision listed in
Section 16590 of the Penal Code.
(19) A felony offense described in
Section 136.1 or 137 of the Penal Code.
(20) Manufacturing, compounding, or selling one-half ounce or more of a salt or solution of a controlled substance specified in subdivision (e) of
Section 11055 of the Health and Safety Code.
(21)
A violent felony, as defined in subdivision (c) of
Section 667.5 of the Penal Code, which also would constitute a felony violation of subdivision (b) of
Section 186.22 of the Penal Code.
(22) Escape, by the use of force or violence, from a county juvenile hall, home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp in violation of subdivision (b) of Section 871 if great bodily injury is intentionally inflicted upon an employee of the juvenile facility during the commission of the escape.
(23) Torture as described in
Sections 206 and 206.1 of the Penal Code.
(24) Aggravated mayhem, as described in
Section 205 of the Penal Code.
(25) Carjacking, as described in
Section 215 of the Penal Code, while armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
(26) Kidnapping for purposes of sexual assault, as punishable in subdivision (b) of
Section 209 of the Penal Code.
(27) Kidnapping as punishable in
Section 209.5 of the Penal Code.
(28) The offense described in subdivision (c) ofSection 26100 of the Penal Code.
(29) The offense described in
Section 18745 of the Penal Code.
(30) Voluntary manslaughter, as described in subdivision (a) of
Section 192 of the Penal Code.
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