They can totally vacate and delete a criminal record if they really want to and enter a notation in the NCIC the same way is done on someone's credit bureau reports.

A court order entered into NCIC vacting prior convictions is functionally a cleared record because that's what will pop up whenever a background check is done, even if the person had a ton of articles about the arrest and incarceration in local newspapers and on the Internet.

Resistance to any removal of the negative consequences of an arrest or wrongful prosecution when the person is found to be innocent is an attack on everyone's freedom and it should be taken seriously and seriously retaliated against.

It's like that Dyer case. No polygraph examination, no cross examination. Nothing, we have to wait several years for the kid to come clean about how the big bald guy came and told momma how to tell the story right so the police would believe it and Charles would have to go stay at another place.

The trick is to make sure someone somewhere is keeping track of these cases.