Tooby's California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants
§ 12.4 B. Correcting FBI Criminal History Reports
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Since the FBI is not the source of the records it compiles, a challenge to the correctness of its records, or a request to correct the contents of the records, will be referred to the source agency. If the conviction is a state conviction, that source would be the state bureau of criminal identification or its equivalent.
Direct a request to correct the FBI criminal history report to:
Assistant Director of the FBI
Identification Division
The FBI will forward it to the state agency that submitted the data and make a correction or not as indicated by the source agency.
Obtain certified copies of records from the court of origin documenting the correct state of affairs, and submit these directly to the FBI. The FBI has been quite willing to correct its records promptly when an error is shown by satisfactory evidence.