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Without automatic expungement, policies to vacate prior marijuana convictions, like the one recently announced by @BrooklynDA, are meaningless. People may not be aware of eligibility & the processes to get convictions vacated are too cumbersome.
appealpolitics.org/2019/advocates…
appealpolitics.org/2019/advocates…
So far only 2 dozen people have had their marijuana convictions vacated in Brooklyn, of the more than 20,000 people who are eligible.
That's for a policy announced some 6 months ago to so much fanfare.
A whole lot of self-congratulatory press-releases & speeches from @BrooklynDA & @OrenYaniv (official spokesperson for the office) with insignificant outcomes for the people the policy was supposed to benefit.
A whole lot of self-congratulatory press-releases & speeches from @BrooklynDA & @OrenYaniv (official spokesperson for the office) with insignificant outcomes for the people the policy was supposed to benefit.
And virtually no media scrutiny or follow up.
In Brooklyn at least, marijuana policy since 2014 is smoke and mirrors (no pun).
In Brooklyn at least, marijuana policy since 2014 is smoke and mirrors (no pun).
