Record sealing is the practice of sealing or, in some cases, destroying court records that would otherwise be publicly accessible as public records. ... Generally, record sealing can be defined as the process of removing from general review the records pertaining to a court case.

So these sealed cases are done? Will anything ever come of them? If so, when?

What was going on the end of 2017 to warrant the larger numbers? Something big happened around October 2017 or just before.

What is this?

Do we have any time period to compare to? Sauce?

Anecdote: Many times small first-offense misdemeanor charges against minors (like minor in possession of alcohol, small shoplifting, etc.) get sealed so stupid teenagers don’t have a record that screws up their life when they have one slip up (I know lots of people this happened to).

If we consider that any given age has roughly 4 million people in it, and we assume there’s 6-8years of a persons life where we might chalk up minor crimes to remediable stupidity (13-19yo?) then that means there were 40+ million people that were in this age group at some point in the last 4 years. So, let’s call it 200,000 sealed cases would be ~5% of those 40 million. Might be a little too much, but I think it could easily be in that 5% range. Think about 20 teenagers you know... might 1 of them have caught a case for boozing or similar?

Obv this is just bar napkin math with some rough assumptions, but just trying to put this into perspective.

Where was this from? Also central California has an absurdly large number for an area that's mostly barren and desert.