Non-Disclosures

Texas Non-Disclosure and Deferred Adjudication Lawyer

The Law Office of Kimberly Griffin Tucker in Carrollton, Texas, assists clients who have successfully completed deferred adjudication probation and are now seeking to obtain an order of nondisclosure (ND). This new ND order is the ONLY WAY to limit public exposure of your past criminal infractions.

As you know, once a person is arrested and charged with a crime by the police, that arrest record is permanently available for public disclosure and distribution. In the past, the only way to prevent public disclosure of criminal records was to seek an expunction.

The problem was that the law only permitted an expunction under certain circumstances. In the past, people who pled to deferred adjudication probation were told they would not have a criminal record so they were shocked when their criminal histories began to haunt them. But when they called their lawyers they found out that they were not eligible for expunction, so their arrest records became forever available for public knowledge!

After years of no relief of this problem, a solution was finally created on September 1, 2003, in the form of the NON-DISCLOSURE. This new law finally gave these folks the ability to SEAL a successfully completed deferred adjudication probation from public knowledge.

Mrs. Tucker was the FIRST lawyer to file an ND in Denton and in Dallas County when it came to pass in 2003. Over the course of time, she has become very well versed in this area of the law and will work hard to get your non-disclosure approved by the court.

Once granted, a non-disclosure prohibits DPS (who maintains these records) from giving this information out to all those companies that want to buy your criminal records and make them available to the public. An ND also allows you to deny the occurrence of that arrest and prosecution unless the records are being used in subsequent criminal proceeding.

Am I eligible for an ND? That depends on what level offense you were charged with - some offenses have a waiting period and you can lose your eligibility for an ND if you get into trouble again (like you receive a subsequent conviction or deferred adjudication - this does not include traffic violations).

Contact the Law Office of Kimberly Griffin Tucker at (972) 492-2889 or (972) 306-3330 so Mrs. Tucker and her staff to see if you are eligible for an ND. Before your first appointment, fill out the Client Information form and prepare a detailed written statement of all the events surrounding your arrest as soon as possible. If there are any witnesses, get their contact information and have them draft a brief statement. They may prove invaluable should you decide to go to trial.