A criminal record can be a bar to certain types of employment, licensing, holding public office, and even the right to vote. Most states allow for a process called expungement that will remove certain arrests or criminal convictions from the offender’s record.

Depending upon the laws of the state in which you live and the nature of the crime, you may be able to get an arrest or conviction sealed or erased from your legal record. After the expungement process is complete, you will not need to disclose the conviction on a job or school application, and in most instances no record of the arrest or conviction will show up during a public records inspection or background check commonly done by potential employers, landlords, and educational institutions.

In Nebraska, a person whose arrest was made as a result of an error by a law enforcement agency may be eligible to have the record expunged. N.R.S. § 29-3523  Any person arrested due to the error of a law enforcement agency may file a petition with the district court for an order to expunge the criminal history record information related to that error. The petition must be filed in the district court of the county in which the petitioner was arrested, and the county attorney must be named as the respondent and must be served with a copy of the petition. The court may grant the petition and issue an order to expunge such information if the petitioner shows by clear and convincing evidence that the arrest was due to error by the arresting law enforcement agency.

For a full overview of expungement law in the state of Nebraska, see the USLegal website  .