A Florida mom is suing a company that vets guests for Airbnb after she says she was banned from the short-term rental platform over a pair of past felony convictions that have since been expunged.
The mistake, which the lawsuit argues never should have happened, left the woman unable to take her daughter to a series of potentially lucrative rodeo competitions, and prevented the girl — whose winnings provide the family’s main source of income — from qualifying for the barrel racing national championships.
I dunno about all that…
It’s a legit question about how the expungement of records works tho. Back in the day no one kept records on hand, now if a record exists and part of it is expunged…
Those records still exist out there somewhere.
Expungement requires it to be removed from all public records. No exceptions.
How are these public?
They’re copies of old records that are owned by private companies
Like, that’s the entire point of the article and the lawsuit…
Public record can’t be owned by a private company and if they maintain a copy, they are responsible with keeping information up-to-date and if the record is expunged they are by law required to destroy it.
You can have an argument with me about it, or you could read the article…
Personally, I think the chances of you believing the article is a lot higher than you believing me rewording the article.
Like, even just explaining the difference between “can” and “legally can” would help you out here. But there’s just a lot of steps likely involved with getting you caught up.
Just read the article