New Jersey Expungement Statutes
N.J.S. 2C:52-10.1 System to electronically file expungement applications
a. (1) No later than twelve months after the effective date of this section, the
Administrative Office of the Courts shall develop and maintain a system for petitioners to
electronically file expungement applications pursuant to N.J.S.2C:52-1 et seq. The e-filing
system shall be available Statewide and include electronic filing, electronic service of
process, and electronic document management.
(2) The system shall, in accordance with N.J.S.2C:52-10, electronically notify and serve
copies of the petition and all supporting documents upon the Superintendent of State Police,
the Attorney General, and each county prosecutor as described in that section.
(3) The system shall electronically compile a listing of all possibly relevant Judiciary
records for an expungement petitioner and transmit this information to all parties served with
copies of the petition and all supporting documents in accordance with paragraph (2) of this
subsection.
b. Upon receipt of the information from the court pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) of
subsection a. of this section, the Superintendent of State Police, the Attorney General, and
the county prosecutor of any county in which the person was convicted shall, within 60 days,
review and confirm, as appropriate, the information against the person’s criminal history
record information files and notify the court of any inaccurate or incomplete data contained
in the information files, or of any other basis for ineligibility, if applicable, pursuant to
N.J.S.2C:52-14.
c. The court shall provide copies of an expungement order to the person who is the
subject of the petition and electronically transmit the order to the law enforcement and
criminal justice agencies which, at the time of the hearing on the petition, possess any
records specified in the order in accordance with N.J.S.2C:52-15.
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