U of A students hold marijuana expungement clinic to clear records

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Getting his marijuana report expunged has been a second Caesar Romo has been ready for for nearly half a century. He was charged with a a marijuana associated cost in 1976 and since then he’s had it on his report.

He’s a substitute instructor at a neighborhood center faculty and stated his report got here up when he was updating his educating certificates and getting fingerprinted.

“In any case this time I believed it might be gone, however no, it was there. So I figured if I might expunge it, it wouldn’t be a nasty factor,” Romo stated.

College students of the College of Arizona’s regulation faculty Mia Burcham and Rebecca Caro Cohen are serving to folks like Romo expunge their data via their marijuana expungement clinics on campus.

“It’s an amazing feeling when somebody walks out with a cleared report. It could possibly be fairly life-changing,” Burcham stated.

They stated it doesn’t take a lot to get folks’s data expunged. They stated folks don’t even want an I.D., however simply must know once they acquired the cost or arrest and the place.

If somebody wants assist, they give the impression of being up their disposition dates which they stated ought to be accessible via public entry courtroom data.

Nonetheless, for folks like Romo, discovering their data are a bit more durable.

Romo’s had his cost for therefore lengthy that it wasn’t in a pc system.

“We actually hope when folks are available in that we’ll have the ability to get them out the door with a accomplished petition and so we aren’t ready to try this which is irritating,” Caro Cohen stated.

Nonetheless, she stated there are alternatives like contacting the courtroom straight and asking for a data search.

As for a way lengthy it takes to search out out whether or not somebody obtained their report expunged, Burcham and Caro Cohen stated it usually takes about one to 2 months.

They’re already planning to have one other clinic on March 25 on the regulation faculty. They stated if somebody will get denied, they work with the Arizona Marijuana Expungement Coalition to supply free authorized assist to folks.

If somebody isn’t in a position to make it to their clinic, they stated they will go to this web site to join an expungement.

Romo stated it’s college students like Caro Cohen and Burcham who’re serving to him rebuild his life.

“I believe it’s good. They’re placing their apply to work. Im a instructor. You’ve obtained to show,” Romo stated.

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