LIFT Wisconsin - CCAP Criminal Records

Legal Tune Up can help remove eligible criminal records from CCAP

CCAP is Wisconsin Circuit Courts’ online public records database known as Consolidated Court Automation Program.

Easily and quickly displays your CCAP records for review

Allows you to determine if you can remove Wisconsin criminal or eviction records

Provides the correct form to file with the court

Takes less than 10 minutes to get started

It is free

Why Clean Up Your Records?

“Adverse online information can be a huge barrier for people who did no wrong, or were found not guilty or had the charges dismissed,” according to Ray Dall’Osto, a defense attorney at Gimbel Reilly Guerin & Brown. “Their opportunity for employment, housing and credit can be and is severely impacted when people look on CCAP and see this information, even when a case is dismissed.”

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Removing eligible criminal records can have a positive impact for people and their families.

Landlords and employers can search criminal records in approving renters or in hiring people.

This can lead to bias against people based on the current records

Removing these records can increase the opportunities to get a new job or housing.

What Criminal Records May Be Removed from CCAP?

In Wisconsin, records eligible for removal from the Wisconsin Circuit Courts’ online public records database (CCAP) are those:

When someone is charged with an offense that is dismissed

Or the charge/arrest/case is older than two years (if the charge is not associated with another chargethat resulted in a conviction or if it was read into the record by a judge that it should be removed from CCAP when a case was dismissed)

For records that are not for you (i.e., mistaken identity)

For safety reasons, people can also petition the court of original jurisdiction to remove their personal information from CCAP in a civil case if they can demonstrate that a potential exists for physical or bodily harm or a threat of harm to themselves, a family member, or a member of the immediate household.