Oden v. Cahill

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON

delivered the opinion of the court:

When an individual is arrested for the first time in life and no criminal conviction results, the fact of arrest nevertheless remains as a blot on the person’s record. An Illinois statute provides a procedure by which arrestees may expunge the official records of their first brush with the law. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 206 — 5.) There is also a provision of the Illinois Constitution which forbids invasions of privacy by public officials. (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, §6.) If public officials defy an expungement order and…