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The prosecutors and judge realize that, and they make that part of any resolution that the person has to go in and get booked which is kind of a borough because now they're going to get a record and it's going to go into the DOJ database showing them getting booked. They don't book them, so there's no record. There are now mechanisms now in place that have recently been passed, that if you're booked and the prosecutors don't file a charge against you, then you can attempt to get that booking out of there.Ī lot of times also what I see is that a person comes in contact with the police and the police cite them into court and they don't arrest them. If the person was booked by the police in Los Angeles then there are other things that can be done in order to avoid having that record, but it just depends on the circumstances. So, as long as the person wasn't booked by the police there's going to be no record of a crime. A lot of times what happens is prosecutors get their hands on a case. So, when it comes to booking, that's kind of the dividing line between there being a record of you coming through the police station and there being no record of it. A lot of these law enforcement agencies – which I think is impermissible – sometimes try to take people's DNA, their photographs, so now there's a record of the person being booked for a crime in Los Angeles and that's the type of record that's very difficult – if not impossible – to get off your record. If they decide that they're going to book them, then their fingerprints are taken their palm prints are typically taken. Really the way that it works is, the police get their hands on somebody. When it comes to getting booked in LA as far as a crime goes, this is a crucial distinction in the law, because once somebody is booked – and that means that the police are going to attempt to get the prosecutors – whether it be the City Attorney or District Attorney – to charge the person with a crime.