Originally Posted by
mshunter
Does it even matter? I heard that the FBI keeps this all on file, and you can't expunge FBI records. And most employers do an FBI background check right?
What some states do is add that the expungement gives a person the right to say "no" to the "have you ever been..." and a legal claim against certain people who discriminate based on the record.
How practically effective that really is is a pretty important question.