Section Trans 100.19 - File purge criteria(1) The department may purge references to accidents from the department's online database of driver records twice per year or with such increased frequency as the secretary deems appropriate.(2) An accident may be removed from a driver record if more than 4 years from the date of the accident have elapsed when the purge is conducted.(3) A safety responsibility suspension or revocation case entry may be removed from a driver record if 5 years from the effective date of the suspension or revocation, or 3 years from the operator's reinstatement eligibility date, whichever is longer, have elapsed at the time the purge is conducted.(4) After a damage judgment is satisfied or discharged, the damage judgment suspension or revocation case entry may be removed from a driver record at the time a purge is conducted if 3 years from the date the person meets one of the criteria in s. Trans 100.18(1) (a) or (e), or 5 years from the date of the suspension or revocation, whichever is longer, have elapsed.(5) After a damage judgment debt is discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding, the damage judgment suspension or revocation case entry may be removed from the debtor's driver record at the time a purge is conducted if 3 years from the date the debtor is discharged from liability for the accident in a bankruptcy proceeding, or 5 years from the date of the suspension or revocation, whichever is longer, have elapsed.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 100.19
Cr. Register, October, 1985, No. 358, eff. 11-1-85; r. (3), (1) and (2) renum. from Trans. 100.18(1) and (2), Register, April, 1994, eff. 5-1-94; CR 01-156: renum. (1) to be (2), (2) to be (3), and am., cr. (1), (4) and (5) Register October 2005 No. 598, eff. 11-1-05.The Department conducts system wide "purges" of its driver database once or twice per year, usually over weekends around the 1st of the year and the 1st of July. A record entry is removed if it meets purge criteria on the date a purge is conducted. Entries are not removed on anniversary dates, but rather, in the first purge conducted after the appropriate anniversary date.