A person arrested for a level A offense can move to expunge the arrest records
To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, section 2, Sec. 2.
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A person arrested for a level A offense can move to expunge the arrest records
The document says “can”Who acts: persons arrested for level A offenses, United States district courtsHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“A person arrested for any level A offense (or an attorney representing such a person) may move the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where the person was arrested to expunge all records of the arrest”
The second motion. A person arrested for a level A offense, or an attorney representing that person, may move to expunge all records of the arrest. The motion goes to the district court for the district and division embracing the place where the arrest happened. The ground is that the conduct or alleged conduct that resulted in the arrest was directly related to the person having been a victim of trafficking. No conviction is required for this motion.
What the document actually says
“A person arrested for any level A offense (or an attorney representing such a person) may move the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place where the person was arrested to expunge all records of the arrest”
That sentence, in plain words
A person held for a level A crime can ask a court to erase all records of the arrest. Their lawyer can ask too.
What this is about
The ask goes to the court for the place where the arrest took place. An arrest leaves a record even with no trial. This lets that record be erased.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, Public Law 119-73, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 2003 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ73/html/PLAW-119publ73.htm
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“A person arrested for a level A offense can move to expunge the arrest records,” Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/trafficking-survivors-relief-act/proposal/sec02-motion-to-expunge-level-a-arrest/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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