Expungement means clearing your record. When a court expunges your case, without an expungement order, an arrest or conviction stays on your record forever.If you enter into a plea in abeyance agreement, it means you are waiving nearly all of the rights that you have as a criminal defendant. Utah's Clean Slate law requires the government to use technology to identify and automatically expunge minor criminal records for qualifying individuals. 1. You must first obtain a certificate of eligibility from the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI), before filing a petition to expunge records. You must submit your request using DOPL's Application for Criminal History Determination. "Automatic expungement" means the expungement of records of an investigation, arrest, detention, or conviction of an offense without the filing of a petition. It depends on the laws in your state but most states do allows arrests don't result in convictions to show up on your background check. Even if a defendant was not convicted of the crime they were arrested for; their criminal record will still reflect the arrest. It will not show up as a conviction.