Texas Record Guide
HireRight, Sterling & First Advantage: Expunged Texas Records
Corporate hiring runs through a handful of enterprise screeners — HireRight, Sterling, First Advantage, Accurate. If your offer letter says 'contingent on background check,' one of them is about to read your record. Here's what they see after a Texas expunction or sealing.
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Enterprise screening after clearing
These vendors verify at the courthouse level for current data and are bound by the FCRA — an expunged case's records no longer exist to verify, and a sealed case is off-limits to private access. Post-order, a correctly-run report comes back without the case.
Enterprise checks are also where 7-year reporting limits and disposition-accuracy rules bite screeners hardest, which makes their dispute channels responsive: a certified order attached to a dispute typically corrects a report well inside the statutory window.
Timing around an offer
The contingent-offer window is short — days, not weeks. If your clearing order is recent, front-load: get certified copies now, know your dispute channels, and if a check is imminent mid-process, tell us — sequencing disclosure and dispute during an active offer is a solvable, common problem.
Common questions
My offer is contingent and my expunction is still processing. What do I do?
This exact timing problem is common and manageable — the answer depends on where the petition stands and what the application asked. Call us before the check runs, not after.
Which is safer for corporate jobs — sealing or expunction?
Both defeat commercial screening. Expunction adds the right to deny the arrest and removes the record even from most government checks — take it where your case qualifies.
Disclaimer: This page is general legal information about Texas law, not legal advice about your case, and reading it does not create an attorney‑client relationship. Eligibility depends on the complete details of your criminal history — get a free case review for a definitive answer.
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