People search for a San Marcos expunction lawyer when an old arrest is sitting on a background check: internships, apartments, a first job after Texas State. Hays County expunction and Hays County nondisclosure are two different remedies. One, if the file qualifies, orders records destroyed or returned. The other can seal a misdemeanor from most public searches. The word is expunction, never the other spelling.
Students also ask how to expunge a record for college. Texas does not clear a file because you are enrolled. Eligibility depends on what was charged, how the case ended, and time. Call and we look at the file.
Expunction after DWI in Texas
Expunction after DWI in Texas is narrow. A DWI that ends in a conviction is not the usual candidate. A DWI arrest that was dismissed, no-billed, or otherwise disposed of in a way the statute recognizes may be. That is a file question, not a slogan. If you are still in the criminal case, start with the San Marcos DWI page. Record-clearing comes after the case is actually over.
Seal a misdemeanor — Texas student files
To seal a misdemeanor in Texas as a student usually means an order of nondisclosure, not an expunction. Deferred adjudication on some misdemeanors can open that door after a waiting period. MIP and similar counts sometimes qualify; sometimes they do not. We will say which, based on the disposition, not based on how badly you want the search to come back clean.
Hays County paper
Most of these student files were made in Hays County. The petition still has to name the right agencies and the right cause number. A fuzzy memory of “that night on the Square” is a start. A disposition and a cause number are better. The general expunctions page covers the same statutes for non-student files. This page is for the college overlay: housing, school, and the internship that asked about arrests.