Which crimes cannot be sealed or expunged in Florida?

Your criminal history record cannot be sealed or expunged in Florida if you were found guilty by a judge or pled guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to certain crimes, even if adjudication was withheld and even if you were convicted of simply attempting or conspiring to commit certain crimes.

The following is a list of 36 such crimes that appear on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s website:

1. Arson
2. Aggravated Assault
3. Aggravated Battery
4. Illegal use of explosives
5. Child abuse or Aggravated Child Abuse
6. Abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult, or aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult
7. Aircraft piracy
8. Kidnapping
9. Homicide
10. Manslaughter
11. Sexual Battery
12. Robbery
13. Carjacking
14. Lewd, lascivious, or indecent assault or act upon or in the presence of a child under the age of 16 years
15. Sexual activity with a child, who is 12 years of age or older but less than 18 years of age, by or at solicitation of a person in familial or custodial authority
16. Burglary of a dwelling
17. Stalking and Aggravated Stalking
18. An act of domestic violence
19. Home-invasion Robbery
20. An act of terrorism
21. Manufacturing certain controlled substances
22. Sexual misconduct with a developmentally-disabled person
23. Sexual misconduct with a mental-health patient
24. Luring or enticing a child
25. Sexual battery
26. Procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution
27. Lewd or lascivious offenses committed upon or in the presence of persons less than 16 years of age
28. Voyeurism
29. Scheme to defraud or organized fraud
30. Lewd or lascivious offense upon or in presence of elderly person or disabled person
31. Sexual performance by a child
32. Offenses by public officers and employees
33. Showing or selling obscene literature to a minor
34. Computer pornography
35. Selling or buying of minors
36. Trafficking in controlled substances

However, if you were simply arrested for one of the above-mentioned crimes or if you were charged with one of these crimes but charges were later dismissed, it may still be possible for you to get your criminal history record sealed or expunged.