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Find out if your California record can be cleared
Nine questions, about two minutes, no account and no card. You get a straight answer about your own record — including when the answer is that the State has probably already cleared it for free.
- Flat fees from $399, filing fee included — no separate court cost, no processing fee
- No surcharge if you had a probation violation, unlike every competitor we checked
- We tell you what a dismissal does not do before you pay, not after
Read this before you pay anyone
Between July 2022 and December 2023 the California Department of Justice granted automatic relief to 6,861,324 people and notified none of them. Fewer than half had every entry relieved, so plenty of people still need help — but a great many do not, and nobody in this market seems to want to say so.
How this works
Step 1
Take the free check
Nine closed questions about your case. No documents, no written explanation of what happened, no email address required to see your result.
Step 2
We read your actual record
If the check says you may qualify, an attorney pulls your court and Department of Justice records and confirms it. If we were wrong and we cannot help, you get the full fee back.
Step 3
We file it and appear
The petition, the service on the district attorney, the filing fee and the hearing are all ours. You get the signed order when it is granted.
What we actually promise
Every one of these is a term of engagement rather than a prediction about a judge. That is the difference between a promise and a sales pitch.
We check whether you already got relief free
Since October 2024 California clears many records automatically and tells nobody it happened. Our check asks about that first, because if the State already did it you should not be paying anyone.
One flat fee, filing fee included
Every price is published. No separate filing fee, no processing fee, no surcharge if you had a probation violation. The number you see is the number you pay.
We do the paperwork and the court appearance
You answer questions in plain English. The petition, the service on the district attorney, the filing and the hearing are the firm's job.
We tell you what it does and does not do
A dismissal is not an erasure. It will not restore gun rights and some licences still see it. You get the real answer here, before you pay, not after.
Which kind of relief do you need?
California has a dozen different statutes for clearing a record, and which one applies decides what it costs and what it is worth.
PC 1203.425
Automatic relief (PC 1203.425)The Department of Justice reviews state records monthly and adds a relief notation to qualifying convictions, which stops them being disseminated to employers.PC 1203.4
Expungement (PC 1203.4)The court lets you withdraw your plea or sets aside the verdict, then dismisses the case, which releases you from most of the penalties of the conviction.PC 1203.4a
Dismissal without probation (PC 1203.4a)It gives the same dismissal as section 1203.4, for misdemeanour and infraction convictions where the court never granted probation.PC 17(b)
Felony reduced to misdemeanour (PC 17(b))For an offence that could have been charged as either a felony or a misdemeanour — a wobbler — the court can declare it a misdemeanour for all purposes.PC 851.91
Sealing an arrest (PC 851.91)The court orders the arrest record sealed and, for most purposes, treats the arrest as not having occurred.PC 1203.41
Felony relief after county jail (PC 1203.41)It allows the court, in its discretion and in the interests of justice, to withdraw the plea or set aside the verdict and dismiss a felony that was sentenced to county jail under Penal Code 1170(h).Flat fees, published, all in
Every firm we checked publishes a price and then adds a filing fee, a processing fee, or a surcharge. Several publish different prices on different pages of their own website. Ours is one number.
| Service | Our flat fee | Cheapest comparable law firm |
|---|---|---|
| Infraction dismissal | $399 | $499 (you save $100) |
| Misdemeanour dismissal | $599 | $675 (you save $76) |
| DUI or wet reckless dismissal | $699 | $875 (you save $176) |
| Felony dismissal | $799 | $995 (you save $196) |
| Felony reduced to a misdemeanour | $649 | $750 (you save $101) |
| Reduction and dismissal together | $999 | $1,225 (you save $226) |
Find out where you actually stand
The check is free, takes about two minutes, and needs no account and no card. If your record cannot be cleared yet, it tells you that and why.