Clear your Iowa record.

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About clearing a record in Iowa

You can clear your Iowa record. Iowa law lets you petition to expunge certain arrest records and certain convictions under Iowa Code § 901C.3, and Chapter 907 governs deferred judgments that should expunge automatically. The process uses a petition filed with the court that handled the original case, with a potential hearing.

Iowa should automatically expunge certain deferred judgments but still provides a petition process for rural communities where probation is sometimes unsupervised.

Iowa limits you to one expungement under Iowa Code § 901C.3 per lifetime but has no such restriction on other forms of expungement.

Remedies in Iowa

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