Utah is super generous on how many criminal convictions can be expunged. In my Michigan law days, you could only get 1 expungement, ever. In Utah, you just can’t have more than 5 criminal convictions and often simple drug possession crimes don’t count towards that tally.
There is no federal expungements outside of presidential pardons.
When you don’t qualify for expungement you might be able to petition the Utah governor for a pardon. Good luck.
Juvenile convictions are called adjudications. Adults are convicted. You can expunge juvenile adjudications and other delinquency matters much easier than adult charges and convictions.
The normal waiting period for juvenile expungements is one year after probation ends and they are over 18 years old. Certain violent crimes have a 5 year waiting period.
Non Judicial Adjustment Expungements. Don’t forget to expunge juvenile non judicial adjustment files. Non judicial adjustment are juvenile court actions short of regular juvenile delinquencies adjudications.
New as of May 2022 you can now expunge certain expired or dismissed civil protective orders. This does not apply to federal court protective orders, criminal or juvenile delinquency protective orders. Purely civil protective orders, such as stalking, dating, cohabitant and child protective orders.
Under Utah Code 63G-4-106(2) you can ask the Division of Professional Licensing (“DOPL”) to remove all publicly listed disciplinary information on their websites. This is a much more limited expungement of public information. The application fee is $200 and requires a 5 year waiting period or obtaining a criminal expungement of any underlying convictions.
When you are charged with certain crimes or convicted, you are required to produce a DNA sample to the government. Under limited circumstances of dismissal or failure to prosecute, you can get your DNA expunged from the Utah DNA registry. See this article for more details:
GETTING BAD PUBLIC FILES AND INFORMATION SEALED OR EXPUNGED IS ALWAYS WORTH THE EFFORT. LIMITING WHAT YOUR PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYERS, HOUSING AND FINANCIAL PROVIDERS CAN SEEE IS HUGE.