Doesn&#x27;t &#x27;sealed&#x27; imply that is retrievable, just not under most circumstances? As opposed to expunged. As I understand it, a court order can allow certain parties to access a &#x27;sealed&#x27; record as part of different investigation in the future. It&#x27;s just that your employer doesn&#x27;t get to see the whole thing every time they run a background check on you.<p>Why there isn&#x27;t a proper threshold cryptosystem and chain of custody of keys for sealed records? Well, that&#x27;s a different question. The answer is probably along the lines of &quot;the justice system doesn&#x27;t get tech&quot; or &quot;the people who could demand this don&#x27;t know about it or don&#x27;t care enough&quot; or even &quot;thus far the implementation has worked ok...&quot;.