EXPUNGEMENT STEP 3: File and Serve the Forms

EXPUNGEMENT STEP 3: File and Serve the Forms
Make three (3) copies of your notarized Petition for Expungement (Form A), Order for Hearing (Form B), and proposed Expungement Order (Form C). The original and two (2) copies should be filed with the court. Keep one copy of each for your records. 

Form D - Cover Letter - For Filing 

The Cover Letter - For Filing is a form letter that describes to the Superior Court Criminal Case Management Office the contents of your package and the purpose of the enclosed forms. Fill in the blanks on the Cover Letter (Form D) and attach the Cover Letter to the originals and the two photocopies that you are filing (keep one copy of each for your records). Include two large self- addressed envelopes with the appropriate postage stamped on each envelope. These envelopes will be used to send filed copies of your package back to you. Mail this package to the Criminal Case Management Office in the county where you were arrested/taken into custody and/or where the prosecution/adjudication occurred. 

If you were involved in multiple cases in more than one county, mail this package to the Criminal Case Management Office in the county, which has allowed you to file for expungement of your entire record. If you prefer, you may file this package in person. A list of the Criminal Case Management Offices where these forms should be mailed, along with telephone numbers, appears at the end of this guide. 

Step 4: Distributing the Filed Copies 

One copy of thePetition for Expungement, Order for Hearing, and the proposed Expungement Order will be mailed back to you marked “Filed” and assigned an “Expungement Docket Number.” The Order for Hearing will also state the time and the date for your hearing. 

Immediately after receiving the filed copies from the court, make at least seven (7) copies of the Petition for Expungement, Order for Hearing, and the proposed Expungement Order. 

Mail one copy of each, immediately, by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each of the following government agencies that were involved with your case(s): 

• The Attorney General of New Jersey. 
• The Superintendent of State Police, 

• The County Prosecutor.
• The administrator of the municipal court if a 

municipal court heard the matter. 

• The Chief of Police or other head of the police department where the offense was committed or the arrest was made. 

• The chief law enforcement officer of any other law enforcement agency of the State that participated in the arrest. 

• The Warden or superintendent of any institution in which you were incarcerated. 

• The County Probation Division should be provided a copy if you were granted a conditional discharge, conditional dismissal, enrolled into the Pretrial Intervention Program (PTI), enrolled in a juvenile diversion program (Juvenile Conference Committee or Intake Service Conference), granted a deferred disposition, performed community service, owed fines or restitution or you served a term of probation. If your case was transferred to another county for supervision, you should send the information to the original county probation office and the county probation office where your supervision was transferred. 

• The Division of Criminal Justice, Records and Identification Unit should be provided a copy if your case was processed through the State Grand Jury. 

Source 

https://njcourts.gov/forms/10557_expunge_kit.pdf?c=d7J

More info at www.njlaws.com