1. A. Any person qualified under Section 18 of this title may petition the district court of the district in which the arrest information pertaining to the person is located for the sealing of all or any part of the record, including court records, except basic identification information.
2. B. Upon the filing of a petition or entering of a court order as prescribed in subsection A of this section, the court shall set a date for a hearing and shall provide thirty (30) days of notice of the hearing to the prosecuting agency, the arresting agency, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and any other person or agency whom the court has reason to believe may have relevant information related to the sealing of such record.
3. C. If a petitioner requests expungement for multiple offenses in one county, each of which would qualify for expungement if processed sequentially, the expungements may be considered under a single petition. The petitioner shall not be required to submit multiple petitions to accomplish the sequential sealing of multiple offenses in a single county.

4. D. Upon a finding that the harm to privacy of the person in interest or dangers of unwarranted adverse consequences outweigh the public interest in retaining the records, the court may order such records, or any part thereof except basic identification information, to be sealed. If the court finds that neither sealing of the records nor maintaining of the records unsealed by the agency would serve the ends of justice, the court may enter an appropriate order limiting access to such records.

   Any order entered under this subsection shall specify those agencies to which such order shall apply. Any order entered pursuant to this subsection may be appealed by the petitioner, the prosecuting agency, the arresting agency, or the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to the Supreme Court in accordance with the rules of the Supreme Court. In all such appeals, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is a necessary party and shall be given notice of the appellate proceedings.

5. E. Upon the entry of an order to seal the records or any part thereof, the subject official actions shall be deemed never to have occurred, and the person in interest and all criminal justice agencies may properly reply, upon any inquiry in the matter, that no such action ever occurred and that no such record exists with respect to such person.
6. F. Inspection of the records included in the order may thereafter be permitted by the court only upon petition by the person in interest who is the subject of such records, the Attorney General, or by the prosecuting agency and only to those persons and for such purposes named in such petition.
7. G. Employers, educational institutions, state and local government agencies, officials, and employees shall not, in any application or interview or otherwise, require an applicant to disclose any information contained in sealed records. An applicant need not, in answer to any question concerning arrest and criminal records, provide information that has been sealed, including any reference to or information concerning such sealed information and may state that no such action has ever occurred. Such an application may not be denied solely because of the refusal of the applicant to disclose arrest and criminal records information that has been sealed. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any application submitted to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining a handgun license pursuant to Section 1290.18 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
8. H. All arrest and criminal records information existing prior to May 14, 1987, except basic identification information, is also subject to sealing in accordance with subsection D of this section.
9. I. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the physical destruction of any criminal justice records.
10. J. For the purposes of this section, sealed materials which are recorded in the same document as unsealed material may be recorded in a separate document, and sealed, then obliterated in the original document.
11. K. For the purposes of this section, district court index reference of sealed material shall be destroyed, removed, or obliterated.
12. L. Any record ordered to be sealed pursuant to this section, if not unsealed within ten (10) years of the expungement order, may be obliterated or destroyed at the end of the ten-year period.
13. M. Subsequent to records being sealed as provided in this section, the prosecuting agency, the arresting agency, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, or other interested person or agency may petition the court for an order unsealing such records. Upon filing of a petition, the court shall set a date for hearing, which hearing may be closed at the discretion of the court, and shall provide thirty (30) days of notice to all interested parties. If, upon hearing, the court determines that there has been a change of conditions or that there is a compelling reason to unseal the records, the court may order all or a portion of the records unsealed.
14. N. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the introduction of evidence regarding actions sealed pursuant to the provisions of this section at any hearing or trial for purposes of impeaching the credibility of a witness or as evidence of character testimony pursuant to Section 2608 of Title 12 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
15. O. If a person qualifies for an expungement under the provisions of paragraph 3 of subsection A of Section 18 of this title and the petition for expungement is granted by the court, the court shall order the reimbursement of all filing fees and court costs incurred by the petitioner as a result of filing the expungement request.
16. P. If a person qualifies for an expungement under the provisions of paragraph 3 or 4 of subsection A of Section 18 of this title, the person may request a hearing be set within thirty (30) days after the date of filing the petition for expungement. The court shall grant the request for the hearing and shall provide a notice of no fewer than ten (10) days for the hearing to the prosecuting agency, the arresting agency, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and any other person or agency whom the court has reason to believe may have relevant information related to the sealing of such record. Any order entered pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be subject to the provisions of subsections C through M of this section.
17. Q. Any offense that has been expunged shall not be treated as a prior offense in determining whether another offense qualifies for an expungement under Section 18 of this title.

Laws 1987, HB 1153, c. 87, § 2, emerg. eff. May 14, 1987; Amended by Laws 1999, SB 526, c. 234, § 1, eff. November 1, 1999 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2002, HB 2790, c. 475, § 2 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2015, HB 1263, c. 178, § 1, eff. November 1, 2015 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2016, HB 2397, c. 348, § 2, eff. November 1, 2016 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2022, HB 3316, c. 143, § 2, eff. November 1, 2022 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2024, SB 1770, c. 259, § 2, eff. November 1, 2024 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2025, HB 2235, c. 292, § 1 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2026, SB 2030, c. 282, § 3, emerg. eff. July 1, 2026 (superseded document available).