appears in the Expunge column on records that qualify for expungement.You can expunge an offender or arrestee from a Incident Report, providing the Incident Report is approved and you have Expunge Records permissions. Refer to your agency administrator for more information on Expunge Records permissions.
Incident Expungements apply to the offender only as there may be more than one offender.
The Person Summary tab on the View Person page displays an Expunge column in the Involved Incidents grid. A red Expunge iconappears in the Expunge column on records that qualify for expungement.
Note: For details on how to access the View Person page refer to Accessing the View Person Page.
Locate the Incident Report on the Summary tab of the View Person page from which you want to Expunge the offender, then click on the red Expunge icon
in the Expunge column to open the Expunge Person page.
On the Expunge Offender page, review the Summary and remove all text that relates to the identity of the person being expunged, then click the Update Summary button. Also review Narratives tied to this Incident Report and remove all references to that person.
Note: Online RMS saves the original and the edited versions of the Narrative.
Click the Back button if you choose to cancel the expungement.
Note: If you cancel the expungement after updating the Incident Summary text, you need to update Incident Summary back to its original version manually.
To continue with the expungement, enter Expungement Comments at the bottom of the page then click the Expunge button.
The View Person page refreshes automatically, returning you to the Person Details tab. Click on the Person Summary tab to see [Expunged] in the Expunge column of the Incident.
Hover your mouse over the blue information bubble 
to display expungement comments.
Users without the Expungement - View Expunged Records permission do not see the Incident Involvement, and the Involvement counts do not include the Incident from which the person was expunged. For more information refer to Expungement Results.
Expunged records are not visible in Online RMS without the Expungement - View Expunged Records permission. Refer to your system administrator for more information on permissions.
Online RMS protects the identity and related data of expunged offenders or arrestees by applying restrictions based on a combination of user permissions and an Expunged flag placed on the data.
The offender or arrestee's name is replaced with the word EXPUNGED for users without the Expungement - View Expunged Records permission.
The offender or arrestee's name displays with an [EXPUNGED] tag for users with the Expungement - View Expunged permission.
| • | Incident Summary Tab – Offenders Grid. |
| • | Incident Names Tab – Offenders Grid (no view icon). |
| • | Incident Names Tab – View Victim page – Victim/Offender relationship. |
| • | Incident Property/Vehicle Tab – View Property page – Property Owner. |
| • | Incident Property/Vehicle Tab – View Vehicle page – Vehicle Owner. |
| • | Visualization – Incident Quick View – Offender Grid. |
| • | Incident Mapping – Incident Quick View – Offender Grid. |
| • | Case Management – Involved Names Grid. |
| • | Evidence/Property Labels – Property Owner. |
| • | Evidence/Property Lab Report – Suspect/Offender box. |
The following changes are applicable throughout Online RMS for users without the Expungement - View Expunged permission.
| • | Master Indices – Person Common Event Associations (offender is not displayed at all). |
| • | Visualization – Offender or Arrestee to Incident link. |
| • | Visualization – Person Quick View – Person Summary tab (Incident not displayed for offender). |
| • | Photo Lineup – Person Quick View – Person Summary (Incident not displayed for offender). |
| • | Person Collapse – Person Quick View – Person Summary tab (Incident not displayed for offender). |
| • | Incident Narratives – If updated during the expunge process, only the edited expunged version can be viewed. |
| • | Incident Search – Name / Combo additional search criteria (Incident not returned when searching by offender). |
| • | Incident Smart Search – by name (Incident not returned at all). |
| • | Incident Smart Search – by any other part of incident (offender not displayed / image not displayed). |
| • | Case Search – Name additional search criteria (Incident not returned when searching by offender). |
Online RMS displays the above data with an [EXPUNGED] tag on the record for users with the Expungement - View Expunged permission. Users with this permission can also view both the original Incident Narratives and the edited expunged versions.
Note: Regardless of the user's permissions, the Print Incident page does not display the expunged offender or arrestee's name, and Quick Print will not print the expunged offender or arrestee.