The conviction is eligble - now what?

Check to see if an eligible conviction has been erased

If you are the individual whose criminal conviction will be erased, congratulations! Once the conviction is erased the conviction will no longer be visible on your criminal record when you search for it on the CT Judicial Website or other state databases.

Read the following carefully:

  • Eligible convictions are starting to be erased from the state records.
    You can check to see if a conviction is erased on the State Judicial Branch website.
    How to look up a criminal record
  • If you are certain that your conviction has been erased, you no longer have to provide any information about that conviction on job applications, housing applications, and in any other area of daily life. You do not have to check off that you have been arrested or convicted of that crime. It is as if that conviction no longer exists.
  • If your conviction has been erased and you feel that, despite the erasure, you have been discriminated against on the basis of that conviction record, contact one of the following for assistance: