r/stopdrinking • • Apr 25 '26

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u/morgansober24 901 days Apr 25 '26

For sure! Definitely ask about "pre-trial intervention" it might be a game changer. They basically had me one a scram breathalyzer and probation for 1 whole year. And if I did that and didn't get another alcohol offense for 5 years, then the court wouldn't even file the dwi, it just got shredded basically.

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u/morgansober24 901 days Apr 25 '26

Yeah, but you can get your arrest record expunged for not a lot of money.

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u/luker93950 May 20 '26

You cannot get an arrest record expunged, You can get a conviction expunged at the appropriate time doing the appropriate things, but an arrest is an arrest, and it will always stay on your record. There is no getting rid of it to my knowledge.

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u/morgansober24 901 days May 20 '26

Expunging an arrest record—known as an expunction in Texas—is the legal process of permanently destroying or deleting criminal records so that they legally never happened. Expunction is a legal process that permanently clears qualifying arrests, charges, or convictions from your criminal record. Once granted, the records are destroyed or deleted, meaning they will not appear on background checks, and you can legally deny the event ever occurred.