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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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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…
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.
And virtually no media scrutiny or follow up.

In Brooklyn at least, marijuana policy since 2014 is smoke and mirrors (no pun).
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Thank you. This is wonderful.

Can you please also do something about the tens of thousands of NYCHA residents who are without heat & hot water right now in this bitterly cold weather.

You know, the people who actually fall within YOUR jurisdiction & who are YOUR responsibility?
Also please do something about the living conditions of the people detained in CITY JAILS - Rikers Island, Brooklyn Detention Center, Manhattan Detention Center and Horizons Juvenile Detention Center in the BX - who YOUR administration has MASSIVELY FAILED.
Here's what it looked like for NYCHA residents on Thursday.

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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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I appreciate your response, but this was all wrong.

1. Mugshots have the opposite effect of what you say your intent was. There was a reason Willie Horton's mugshot was used in the now infamous George Bush campaign ad & it wasn't to convey that he was a "real human being."
2. There's a difference between a mugshot being available on a sheriff's website & in an article in @nytimes.

Maybe law enforcement would still have had access to them, but they have now been broadcast to a national audience of people who never would have seen them.
3. I feel like this answer is disingenuous to an extent.

You don't ordinarily use mugshots the way tabloids do. And some tabloids won't use them now, in police blotter type stories.

It feels like you came up with a very cool graphics idea & now it's a post-facto justification.
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Rebecca J. Kavanagh
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Yes our clients are real people with families, so maybe they don't want to be in a story about them being charged with a crime.

And if they do, maybe they would like to use different photos & have some context to their stories rather than just being represented by a mugshot.
Some tabloid newspapers have voluntarily agreed not to use mugshots in their reporting because they are problematic.

Newspapers like @nytimes would not normally use them in the same way.

The idea that they would use them in what's meant to be a "positive" story is troubling.
Newspapers don't have to publish something just because it's a matter of public record. Sometimes they don't, even when it's newsworthy.

Here it wasn't necessary - just a fancy graphics thing.
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