Am I eligible to seal my record?
The core requirements:
Adjudication was withheld on the charge — you weren't formally convicted.
No prior seal or expunge in Florida under the standard statutes. Automatic sealing, automatic juvenile expunction, diversion expunction, and expunction of an arrest made contrary to law or by mistake do not count as a prior.
No disqualifying offense. Certain charges are excluded by statute regardless of disposition.
Nothing outstanding. No open criminal case, not on probation or community control, no unserved community service, and no unsatisfied court-ordered financial obligation — costs, fines, restitution.
That last requirement stops more applications than everything else combined. An old unpaid court cost of a few hundred dollars will produce a denial.
Before applying: pull your own record, confirm the disposition on every entry, and resolve any outstanding balance. Errors in court records are common, and a wrong entry can disqualify you for something that never happened.
Check for old unpaid costs first. That's what stops most of these. ---
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