Originally Posted by
Xdashdriver
No court documents are ever destroyed on purpose. Expunged really just means they become legally inaccessible to the great majority of people, with exceptions. If you were ever to apply for a job at a law enforcement agency, for example, that agency would have access to expunged records.
I was told by my own lawyer and even the country clerk when I tried to retrieve my own person documents that they were to be incinerated. That's the entire point of an expunction to have no record of it at all. Not accessible by anyone.