{"id":9186,"date":"2020-04-29T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/04\/29\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions\/134835\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:43:01","slug":"coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding and cannabis: Santa Clara County to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SJM-L-OSL1-0811-54-3-1-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/04\/29\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions\/134835\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134835\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Santa Clara County plans to expunge 13,000 minor marijuana convictions that were rendered moot by the state\u2019s 2016 legalization of recreational pot use and sales, two months before a deadline set by the landmark law.<\/p>\n<p>But in the South Bay, it\u2019s not just criminal-justice or drug policy story. Keeping in line with the region\u2019s technological lineage, the District Attorney\u2019s Office also made it a coding story.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because with the anticipated signature of Judge Eric Geffon in a Hall of Justice courtroom Wednesday, prosecutors are planning to automatically clear those conviction records from local, regional and federal law-enforcement databases with software created in-house by the DA\u2019s technology staff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/04\/29\/coding-and-cannabis-santa-clara-county-to-expunge-thousands-of-marijuana-convictions\/\">Read the rest of this story on MercuryNews.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Santa Clara County plans to expunge 13,000 minor marijuana convictions that were rendered moot by the state\u2019s 2016 legalization of recreational pot use and sales, two months before a deadline set by the landmark law. But in the South Bay, it\u2019s not just criminal-justice or drug policy story. Keeping in line with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,6897,851,1345,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,6898,3424,3915],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}