谢谢老猫。搜索了一下本州的法规。似乎"expunged“要等好几年。关于sealed不知道下列条例是否适用（法例条文不好看懂呵）。另外， sealed record能保证background check不会查到么？有的州的法律不允许background check report上出现无罪的逮捕记录，如，TX, NY。不知道那些background check公司是不是都会遵守。如果background check公司和employer在不同的州，那check report应该遵循哪个州的法律呢？
23A-27-17. Sealing of records on discharge of probationer--Effect of order--Future statements by defendant as to conviction. Upon the discharge and dismissal of a person pursuant to § 23A-27-14, a court shall order that all official records, other than the nonpublic records to be retained by the Division of Criminal Investigation, be sealed along with all records relating to the person's arrest, indictment or information, trial, finding of guilt, and dismissal and discharge. The effect of such order is to restore such person, in the contemplation of the law, to the status he occupied before his arrest or indictment or information. No person as to whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of any law to be guilty of perjury or of giving a false statement by reason of his failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest, indictment or information, or trial in response to any inquiry made of him for any purpose.
多谢老猫能解释。
