Not on a check run through the court or the Bureau of Criminal Identification after the order takes effect. Under R.I. Gen. Laws § 12-1.3-4, once the record is expunged you may state that you were never arrested or convicted, with narrow exceptions for bar admission, law enforcement employment, and licenses that involve care of children or vulnerable adults. Private background-check companies are the weak point. They copy court data on their own schedules, and a company that captured your case before the order may keep reporting it until told to stop, so keep a certified copy of the order and send it to any company still showing the case. A later conviction can also reopen the record at sentencing.
