Clearing a DUI From Your Record in Missouri

Intoxication-related traffic and boating offenses cannot be expunged under the general expungement law. Instead, someone with a first intoxication-related traffic or boating offense that was a misdemeanor or ordinance violation may apply after at least 10 years, if they have had no further intoxication-related offense. The court must grant expungement if it finds no later intoxication-related offenses, no other alcohol-related enforcement contacts, and nothing pending. This is allowed only once in a lifetime and is not available to commercial driver's license holders or for commercial-vehicle DUI.

File a petition in the court where the person was charged or found guilty, listing every crime to be expunged. Name as defendants all law enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors, central state repositories and others believed to hold the records; the order does not bind anyone left out. The clerk notifies the prosecutor, who has 30 days to object in writing; if there is an objection, the court holds a hearing within 60 days. If the person meets the time, record and payment requirements, saying in the petition that they are not a threat to public safety and that expungement serves justice creates a presumption that it is warranted, and the prosecutor must rebut it. Victims may be heard. The court must decide within 6 months of filing. A denied petition cannot be refiled for one year. Courts must provide a pro se petition form; the Missouri courts form for 610.140 petitions is CR 360.