If you get ARD (Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition), you successfully complete ARD, and you get a certificate of completion for ARD, you can have your the record of your arrest expunged unless your case is of a sexual nature.
If you had ARD and did not successfully complete the program, you may still be eligible for an expungement. Often the only reason a person’s ARD looks incomplete is that there is an outstanding fine or cost that the person did not know even existed. in that instance, you can still have an expungement.
When ARD is the final disposition of the case, we can almost always figure out a way to get the matter expunged. Always remember that arrests alone still come up in NCIC which is the data base used by the FBI. Therefore, any employer that uses a database for record checks based on the NCIC, will see your arrest even if you had ARD and were never convicted.
