San Francisco will remove more than 9,300 marijuana-related crimes from people’s records, in efforts to remove barriers a criminal conviction poses for individuals long after they’ve served their sentence.
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After about a year of work, Gascón announced on Monday they’d found 9,362 cases that were eligible to be expunged. All that’s left to be done is for the courts to process the requests, he said.after they’ve served their sentences, Gascón said. They can also face barriers to education, housing and employment, and may even be barred from a child’s school field trip because of a conviction.
Everyone’s marijuana conviction is eligible to be expunged, regardless of whether it’s tied to other criminal offenses, Gascon’s office said Monday. Officials had initially stated it was for standalone marijuana convictions but have since corrected their statement.In the end, the project removed what had been a disproportionate number of convictions hanging over the heads of the city’s blacks and Latinos.
As the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana has gained wider acceptance across the nation, lawmakers in a number of states have been wrestling with the issue of how to remove marijuana convictions from people’s records. It could go a long way to helping California with Assembly Bill 1793, signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown last year. The bill mandated the state build a list of all Californians eligible to have crimes expunged under Prop 64 by July 1, with the goal of having all past marijuana-related crimes reduced or cleared in the state by 2020.
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