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Ontario|Criminal LawYoung Offenders 783 Young offender criminal records A young offender's records are confidential, and not normally available to the public. Under the law, most young offender records maintained by the RCMP must eventually be destroyed. However, records relating to murder and aggravated sexual assault are never destroyed. Also, if the young offender commits a crime as an adult, the young offender record may get locked in and become part of the adult record.
The point at which a record will be destroyed depends on the kind of offence that was committed. For relatively serious violent and sexual offences, the records are generally destroyed after ten years. The records for other serious offences are usually destroyed after five years, and the records for less serious offences are usually destroyed after three years.
Although RCMP records must be destroyed, the records of a young offender can still be found in court files and in local police reports. However, these records can only be viewed by the young offender or someone who has been given formal permission by a judge.
You can obtain more information on young offender records and ensuring that your record is eventually destroyed from a lawyer.
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