authority through the Criminal History Records Information Act ("CHRIA") Unit to perform the duties legislated by the Act and delegated to the Attorney General by Chapter 91. These duties include audit and sanction functions to develop accurate and complete criminal records system in the Commonwealth.

Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Records Information Act (CHRIA) – when an employer is in receipt of information from an applicant’s criminal history record information file, the employer can use that information in making the hiring decision.

Criminal justice agencies can access all of an individual's criminal history record information (CHRI). Requests made by noncriminal justice agencies and individuals are subject to edit criteria contained in the law.

2025年3月8日 · CHRIA also allows individuals to seek expungement under certain conditions. Under 18 Pa.C.S. 9122, non-conviction records, summary offenses after five years without further arrests, and records of pardoned individuals may be eligible for removal. Expungement petitions must be filed in the Court of Common Pleas in the county where the case was ...

The chreia or chria (Greek: χρεία) was, in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, both a genre of literature and one of the progymnasmata. A chreia was a brief, useful (χρεία means "use") anecdote about a particular character.

2023年5月2日 · On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law Act 134 of 2022, which amended the Criminal History Record Information Act (CHRIA), to implement a new statutory process by which victims of crimes and defendants in certain civil actions can obtain criminal history investigative information gathered by law enforcement agencies ...

2023年6月1日 · The amendments to CHRIA will provide victims of crimes and their legal representatives access to criminal investigative records for the purposes of litigating a potential, or ongoing, civil suit...

2022年11月16日 · Practitioners seeking criminal history information and law enforcement-related material through discovery, whether civil or criminal, must be familiar with CHRIA to effectively evaluate and challenge attempts to refuse production based on claimed-CHRIA protections.

On May 2, 2023, legislation which expands crime victim access to criminal investigative records became effective. This allows a crime victim or a defendant in a civil action the ability to obtain police investigative materials that were are otherwise barred by CHRIA (Criminal History Record Information Act).

2022年11月4日 · PA Governor signed HB 2525 into law adding a new subchapter to Pennsylvania’s CHRIA that implements a statutory process by which tort victims can obtain investigator