Some 44,000 cannabis-related criminal histories will be deleted from Connecticut state computers starting Jan. 1 thanks to a new law that expunges old criminal records.
But 280,000 other people with felonies and misdemeanors will have to wait another 18 months while the state fully comes online with its new"Clean Slate Law.”“On Jan. 1, thousands of people in Connecticut will have low-level cannabis convictions automatically erased due to the cannabis legalization bill we enacted last year,” Gov. Ned Lamont said in a press release.
Having a criminal record affects job prospects along with the ability to fully integrate with society, they said. Lamont said the technology does not exist to complete this process on Jan. 1 for a wide swath of crimes. Residents with sex crimes or family violence convictions are not eligible for expungement, the bill says.
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