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Petition for Clean Slate Erasure

Automatic erasure only applies to eligible convictions that were imposed on or after January 1, 2000.

To erase eligible convictions for offenses dated prior to January 1, 2000 under the Clean Slate program, you have to ask the court to erase your conviction.

1. Complete the petition

Complete the Petition for Clean Slate Erasure, Convictions Before 1/1/2000, form JD-CR-202. You will have to swear under oath on the form that:

• Your crimes are eligible for Clean Slate erasure.
• You have not been convicted of another crime:
• Within the last 7 years if you are asking the court to erase a misdemeanor conviction; or
• Within the last 10 years if you are asking the court to erase a felony conviction.
• You have completed serving the sentence of imprisonment, parole, probation, and conditional discharge for every crime you have ever been convicted of.
• You have provided a DNA sample for any conviction that required it.
• You are no longer required to register as a sex offender or deadly weapon offender for any conviction that required it.
• You are not subject to any standing criminal protective orders.
• You have paid the criminal fines for any conviction that imposed a fine as part of your sentence.

2. File the completed Petition for Clean Slate Erasure

File form JD-CR-202 with the court where you were sentenced for the conviction(s) you want the court to erase.

• If you want the court to erase convictions in more than one docket number, you have to file a separate form for each docket number
• If you were sentenced in one of the following courts that have since closed, file your petition at the court location listed below:
  • G.A. 6 at New Haven - file the petition at G.A. 23 at New Haven
  • G.A. 8 at New Haven - file the petition at G.A. 23 at New Haven
  • G.A. 13 at Enfield - file the petition at G.A. 14 at Hartford
  • G.A. 16 at West Hartford - file the petition at G.A. 14 at Hartford
  • G.A. 17 at Bristol - file the petition at G.A. 15 at New Britain
  • G.A. 20 at Norwalk - file the petition at G.A. 1 at Stamford

3. The court will review your petition

The court will either:

• Order your conviction(s) to be erased without a hearing, or
• Schedule a hearing on your petition to decide whether your conviction(s) should be erased