Editing Arrest (section)

==Following arrest==
While an arrest will not necessarily lead to a [[criminal conviction]], it may nonetheless in some jurisdictions have serious ramifications such as absence from work, social stigma, and in some cases, the legal obligation to disclose a conviction when a person applies for a job, a loan or a professional license. In the [[United States]] a person who was not found guilty after an arrest can remove their arrest record through an [[expungement]] or (in [[California]]) a finding of factual innocence. A cleared person has the choice to file a complaint or a lawsuit if they choose to. Legal action is sometimes filed against the government after a wrongful arrest.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

For convictions, the [[collateral consequences of criminal charges|collateral consequences]] are more severe in the United States than in the UK, where arrests without conviction do not appear in standard [[criminal record check]]s and need not be disclosed, whereas in the United States, people have to expunge or (if the case goes to court) seal arrest without convictions, or if the charges are dropped.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} However, in the UK, Enhanced [[Disclosure and Barring Service]] (DBS) disclosures permit a Chief Constable to disclose this data if they believe it relevant to the post for which the DBS disclosure was applied.<ref name=gov-20220922>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-checking-service-guidance--2 |title=DBS checks: detailed guidance |website=Disclosure and Barring Service |via=gov.uk |date=22 September 2022 |access-date=13 June 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406234924/https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-checking-service-guidance--2|archive-date=April 6, 2024}}</ref>