Clear your Oklahoma record.

You file a petition in the district court where your arrest record sits. The court sets a hearing and gives thirty days of notice. The notice goes to the prosecuting agency, the arresting agency and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Anyone else the court thinks has facts that matter gets notice too. The court then weighs two things. One is the harm to your privacy, or the risk of unwarranted harm to you. The other is the public interest in the record. The wait depends on your case. An acquittal, a reversal, a full pardon or DNA proof of innocence has no wait. An arrest with no charge waits for the time to file to run out. It can also end when the prosecutor declines to file. A misdemeanor charge dismissed after a deferred judgment or delayed sentence waits one year. A misdemeanor conviction with a fine under $501 has no wait once the fine is paid or served out. That holds only if there was no prison term and no suspended sentence. Other misdemeanor convictions wait five years after the last sentence ends. One nonviolent felony conviction waits five years after the sentence ends. It needs no other felony and no misdemeanor conviction in the last seven years. Up to two felony convictions wait ten years. None may be on the list in section 13.1 of Title 21. None may put you on the sex offender registry. For most cases you must have no felony conviction and no charge pending.

Once the order is entered, the law treats the arrest or case as if it never happened. You may say so. An employer, a school or a government agency may not make you disclose a sealed record. The one exception is a handgun license application to the Bureau. The records are sealed, not destroyed. The Bureau charges a fee to seal its record. It acts once it gets a certified copy of the order. The fee is waived after DNA proof of innocence. Since July 1, 2026, 22 OS § 18b lets the Bureau seal some records with no court petition, if funds allow. 22 OS § 19d sets an online request portal by November 1, 2026. It sets an automatic process by November 1, 2027.