How do I go about researching my old arrest in TN?
I do expungement work on a limited pro bono basis in Chicago. Here is my general advice about this, but, obviously, I don’t practice in Tennessee and some of this may not apply. In order to research this, you need to deal with the original arresting agency, not the clerk of the court because if the record has been expunged, the clerk of the court will no longer have access to the file, and pertinent information (the case number, your name, the arrest record number) won’t call up the original case. The police should also not have access to a properly expunged arrest record. But if the record has only been sealed, the police will have access to the record, while the clerk of the court will not. You need a case number, an arrest record number and/or a police fingerprint record number. The FBI background check should have some of that information on it. If you have a case number, the clerk of the court should be able to get a copy of an order requiring the record to be expunged or sealed–
