Can a DUI ever be sealed or expunged?

A Florida DUI conviction is generally not eligible for sealing or expunction, because sealing and expunction ordinarily require no adjudication of guilt — and Florida law doesn't permit withholding adjudication on a DUI.

A dismissed DUI case is different. Where the case was dropped, dismissed, or resolved without a DUI adjudication, it may be eligible. That depends on two things beyond the case itself: the person's full criminal history, since prior adjudications elsewhere can disqualify, and the statutory exclusions listing offenses that can never be sealed.

The process runs through a certificate of eligibility from FDLE before any petition is filed, and it takes months rather than weeks.

Worth understanding that eligibility is assessed across an entire record rather than case by case. Someone with an otherwise clean history and a dismissed DUI is in a very different position from someone with a dismissal and prior adjudications.