I'm interested in the expungement issue. Utah law says:

If an agency does not receive the expungement order, they are not required to seal their records. A government agency that has received an expungement order will respond to an inquiry as though that arrest or conviction did not occur. A person who has had records expunged may respond to an inquiry as though that arrest or conviction did not occur. The order to seal records applies only to government agencies. Other records, such as news accounts of an arrest or conviction, are not affected.

After a record is expunged, an agency's sealed records can still be viewed and copied by some government officials, and the court can order the records unsealed under some conditions.

My question is how are airlines able to get records that should be viewed only by government agencies? Can you respond as if the event never happened?

When is an expungement not an expungement?

Sorry for the thread drift, folks.