Getting a Copy of Your Louisiana Criminal Record

Louisiana State Police, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, keeps state criminal history records. To get a copy of your own record, use the Right to Review form with your fingerprints. In person at LSP Headquarters the fees are a $10 fingerprint fee and a $31 processing fee (two separate money orders, cashier's checks or business checks, or a credit card). By mail, send the form with two FBI FD-258 fingerprint cards and a $31 money order, cashier's check or business check to LSP Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, P.O. Box 66614 - Box A-6, Baton Rouge, LA 70896.

Louisiana offers expungement, which removes an arrest or conviction record from public access. It does not destroy the record. Other forms of relief include interim expungement (removing a felony arrest when the case ended in a misdemeanor conviction), expungement by redaction, setting aside a conviction after a deferred sentence (Articles 893 and 894), immediate expungement after a court-ordered probation or alternative sentencing program, an automated expungement process, and pardons, including an automatic pardon for many first felony offenders.