Mayor Bibb: It's about 'giving people a second chance, and making sure that access and opportunity is open to everybody in our city'
The city said it's aiming to have convictions expunged, and then sealed. It's unclear how each individual will go about having their records cleared, but Bibb himself is confident that the bill, which actualizes in March, will have its intended effect: to prevent job or apartment denials based on petty drug charges.
The sanctions Bibb speaks of are echoed often at cannabis expungement clinics and rallies, especially leading up to City Council's legislation in 2020 that eliminated fines and jail time for possession under 200 grams. Two years later, they found 455 people were wrongfully charged with marijuana misdemeanors.
Cleveland Municipal Judge Michelle Earley determined the city couldn't legally do anything at the time: the defendants—the convicted themselves—she said, had to be involved in the expungement process.
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