Marijuana: Favors decriminalization and expunging criminal records for cannabis-related offenses.
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In Illinois, the state government is automatically pardoning and expunging past offenses.
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It feels like she's expunging her heartache and melancholy by sharing it us.
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The line combs the grounds, expunging anyone who isn't a volunteer or performer.
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Expunging them from our collective history wrests the control back into our own hands.
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He also said in a June campaign speech that he supported expunging possession convictions.
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Five years later, expunging algorithmic bias is turning out to be a tough problem.
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If the snake is lucky, its skin will start molting, expunging the reptile of the infection.
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The Justice Department, which opposed expunging Doe's record, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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He called for decriminalizing marijuana and expunging the records of those arrested for possessing the drug.
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Individual cities, like San Francisco, have already gone about expunging past convictions for both misdemeanors and felonies.
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Ms. Hitt added that Ms. Nixon has also called for expunging people's records of marijuana-related offenses.
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"Let's end the war on drugs," said O'Rourke, including expunging the arrest records of those caught smoking marijuana.
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For many of them, taking heroin was a way of expunging violent memories of fighting for drug turf.
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The measure also establishes a process for expunging charges that result in a dismissal, The Washington Post reported.
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Curtis, meanwhile, was inclined to invent scenarios, expunging inconvenient details in order to emphasize a concept of primitivism.
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Now Gore will help decide the Justice Department's position if another state is suspected of expunging voters unlawfully.
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Of 16 jurisdictions it examined, 11 had some provision for expunging childhood criminal records; England and Wales do not.
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While the secret lab was expunging dirty samples in Sochi, WADA's president, Craig Reedie, was praising Russia's antidoping effort.
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The goal was to cauterize dissent by expunging it from the "civilized" parts of the empire in European Russia.
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Several other Democratic contenders have backed legalizing marijuana and expunging the records of those incarcerated for nonviolent related offenses.
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It could make expunging a nonconviction automatic — the courts take care of it, with no action necessary from the defendant.
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Among other provisions, the initiative calls for banning private prisons, legalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions for marijuana-related offenses.
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San Francisco's District Attorney said Monday that his office would be expunging more than 9,85033 marijuana convictions from individuals' records.
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He advocated expansive criminal justice reform, including legalizing marijuana and expunging records of those already convicted for marijuana-related crimes.
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That's why the Los Angeles Times editorial board came out in favor of retroactively expunging or resentencing marijuana-related convictions.
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The form gave me two major choices: Expunging my registration record alone or doing so and requesting my 500 pennies back.
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The problem with expunging the passenger's race from the discussion is that it plays into this myth of the raceless minority.
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The funds would be used for job training, expenses related to expunging convictions, public libraries, community centers, and health education programs.
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Amazon is taking a new approach to its counterfeit problem by putting brands in control of expunging knockoff products on its site.
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Transferring federal lands back to Native Americans would be a good first step toward expunging that racist notion from our national policies.
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Mr. Hayman said Democrats' strongest message in 2020 ought to be about expunging the Trump years and returning the country to stability.
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The funds would be used for job training, expenses related to expunging convictions, public libraries, community centers, and health education programs. Sen.
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Instead, he would embrace a position closer to Obama's and decriminalize marijuana use -- while also automatically expunging prior convictions tied to cannabis use.
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Eventually, after another two months, I deleted an entire book project I'd been working on, expunging all notes from my phone and laptop.
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Saudi Arabia plans to expunge foreigners from human resources and telecoms (and appears to be expunging a fair few businesses in the process).
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Expunging that legacy will take at least as long, but its harm to human well-being in the meantime can never be undone.
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However, the cherry on top of the pardon sundae that you did not mention would be a self-pardon, expunging his own criminality.
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Those who argue against expunging criminal records say people who violated the law should live with the consequences, regardless of subsequent legal changes.
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The police say they will start expunging some of the 82,000 people in the database who have never been convicted of a crime.
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At the walkout, the students read off a list of demands, which included expunging whistleblowers' records and overhauling the sexual assault reporting process.
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The city is considering expunging ID-holders' contact information from its records, as was allowed in the 2014 law that established the program.
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It removes cannabis from the list of controlled substances while also expunging the records of anyone locked up for use or possession charges.
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And Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey was among the first candidates to propose not only legalizing marijuana but expunging records of past offenders.
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A study done in Michigan showed that only 6.5% of people eligible for a clean slate actually go through the process of expunging their records.
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Both bills call for legalizing the drug nationwide, expunging criminal records for those charged with marijuana possession and investing money into communities harmed by drugs.
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The clemency decision comes amid a wave of new legal measures vacating convictions and expunging criminal records of child-trafficking victims, often called safe harbor laws.
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By publicly expunging Trump fans from their feed, Clintonistas only legitimize some Trump supporters' biggest complaint: that they're a persecuted minority, victimized by the liberal elite.
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His plan proposes criminal justice reform measures such as expunging past cannabis convictions and proposals to give people with convictions financial help to launch cannabis businesses.
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On the campaign trail, he has made passionate pleas for expunging minor drug convictions, ending private prisons and expanding re-entry programs for the formerly incarcerated.
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James, an alum of former President Barack Obama's campaign who supports Harris' bid for president, heralded the reduction of sentences and expunging of record as game-changers.
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"Justice means expunging the records of those with marijuana possession charges and fully prosecuting Big Pharma for fueling an opioid epidemic that has killed thousands," she continued.
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It would also aim to undo some damage from marijuana laws by expunging federal marijuana convictions and penalizing states with racially disparate arrests for marijuana-related crimes.
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But we do know what is in his public statements — and also what is not, like his expunging of Hitler's greatest victims from last January's Holocaust message.
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The most common is "moral rehabilitation," which entails a formal apology by the state and the expunging of criminal records of those convicted of a homosexual offense.
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Editorial President Trump, ever intent on expunging the legacy of Barack Obama, is on the verge of undermining the priceless conservation vision of Theodore Roosevelt as well.
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He had also backed decriminalizing marijuana and expunging prior convictions for cannabis use, ending cash bail and eliminating the death penalty, a punishment he had long embraced.
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That information is then passed on to county prosecutors, who have until July 1, 2020, to review and determine whether expunging or downgrading a conviction is appropriate.
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He had also backed decriminalizing marijuana and expunging prior convictions for cannabis use, ending cash bail and eliminating the death penalty, a punishment he had long embraced.
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O'Rourke then listed several policy declarations, among them education, economic, healthcare, and criminal justice policies, including ending the drug war and expunging arrest records for nonviolent drug crimes.
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Moreover, he argued that Quebec's independence would help neutralize the province's simmering far right by expunging easy nationalism and xenophobia in favor of cultural affirmation and human rights.
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But reducing or expunging convictions for offenses that are no longer crimes is not just the right thing to do — it's the obligation of a civilized, just society.
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It was an absolute outrage to hear Bloomberg call for the decriminalization of marijuana and the expunging of criminal records for those caught with small amounts of the drug.
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San Francisco will be "expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony" marijuana convictions for the past several years, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, which could cost the state millions of dollars.
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Some U.S. states have enacted provisions that provide survivors the ability to seek a court order vacating or expunging criminal convictions entered against them that resulted from their trafficking situation.
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The bill also aims to reverse the damage done to those who were prosecuted for marijuana use by expunging federal crimes and allowing offenders to petition courts for shorter sentences.
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They care about being the best at World War 2, expunging their past mistakes, and one day perhaps leading men like themselves into the same iconic scenes, again and again.
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Measure 3: An "affirmative" vote supports legalizing the recreational use and possession of marijuana for people 21 years and over, as well as automatically expunging individuals previously convicted for possession.
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This book allows us to observe not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality.
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At the forum, O'Rourke called for increased access to capital for minority business owners and expunging the arrest records for those with marijuana convictions, which disproportionately affects communities of color.
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Worst, I've been told that I am not a real woman without having kids, as if my sex and gender identity requires incubating a fetus and expunging it from my vagina.
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Expunging a criminal record, however, does not assist a person who is applying for a license, for example, in law, real estate and medical fields, or for that matter most professions.
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In addition to expunging criminal records, it is time to make appropriate policy revisions to limit these excessive powers, which work against the rehabilitation we profess to offer to most criminals.
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While he supports decriminalizing marijuana and expunging prior cannabis use convictions, he continues to stop short of supporting legalizing marijuana across the board, in contrast to a number of his opponents.
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FINRA arbitrators, in a separate ruling on Thursday, recommended expunging details about another arbitration case from individual public disclosure records for a UBS Puerto Rico executive, former branch managers, and a broker.
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So the end result of expunging future climate modeling and certain climate scenarios will only serve to weaken congressionally-mandated scientific reports in the U.S. And that may be the administration's plan.
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He told The New York Times that during Sochi he had worked at the direction of the Russian government, expunging the tainted urine of Russian athletes who were using performance-enhancing drugs.
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It also means expunging juvenile records for many of the cases that are resolved or when no new charges are incurred after a few years so young people have a second chance.
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They have tried to overshadow a record of reform praised by some experts, including the expunging of marijuana convictions, targeting gun violence and moving away from prosecuting non-violent offenses such as shoplifting.
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It checks many of the boxes of the progressive criminal justice reform movement: legalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions; ending cash bail, mandatory sentencing minimums, and the death penalty; and banning private prisons.
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With a majority of Americans now believing simple marijuana use should not be a crime, expunging or reducing the convictions of all those folks who got caught is the right thing to do.
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Over the past few days, the Democratic contenders have proposed a raft of new policy ideas, from expunging criminal records for marijuana arrests to setting up multibillion-dollar funds to support minority-run businesses.
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In essence, they have declared that merely removing penalties for the drug is not enough; expunging criminal records and carving out a place for people of color in the cannabis economy is considered essential.
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Most of the fighters left in Baghouz are foreigners, the SDF has said, among the thousands drawn by Baghdadi's promise of a new jihadist utopia straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border and expunging national borders.
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This year, the team formed a partnership with George Gascón, the San Francisco district attorney, to work on a new program that automates the process of expunging marijuana-related convictions under the state's legalization laws.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads American street artist Ron English has announced his plans to stage a modern take on Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased de Kooning Drawing" by expunging a famous Banksy mural from existence.
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San Francisco and San Diego's district attorneys are taking proactive steps, looking through past marijuana convictions on their own and taking automatic action on what they find — expunging low-level convictions and downgrading higher-level offenses.
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"I support legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use by developing a system of taxation, guaranteeing that it is Minnesota grown, and expunging the records of Minnesotans convicted of marijuana crimes," Walz wrote on Twitter in August.
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It would be tempting to reduce this to a simple story of good versus evil, with the villain — whether that means enforcers like Mr. Duterte or the criminal elements they claim to be expunging — solely responsible.
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In more than two dozen interviews, they described creative methods of punishing his economic empire and expunging the once-esteemed reminders of him from their lives, closets, golf bags and bookshelves over the past few months.
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The lawyer asked the court to consider Lederman's lack of a criminal record in sentencing, and suggested that he warranted "non-conviction" - under Israeli legal procedure, an accelerated expunging of the assault case from his files.
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That means expunging the records of people who have been unjustly convicted of things that two of the last three presidents have admitted to doing, doing things that so many members of Congress have admitted to doing.
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He has to use his age to his advantage and argue that expunging the politics that produced Trumpism requires a candidate from a new generation, one willing to think about problems in fundamentally different ways than older politicians.
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Biden has defended himself by arguing that, while he opposes national legalization, he will still let states legalize, and he'll decriminalize at the federal level, letting out anyone who's locked up for marijuana possession and expunging their records.
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For the residents of this region, where cell phone coverage is all but nonexistent, the phone booth is both a portal to the wider world and a point of entry for global culture, expunging geographical, cultural, and linguistic borders.
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His decriminalization position marks a bit of a shift for Biden, who served as vice president in the Obama administration, which did not move to decriminalize marijuana, reschedule the drug or publicly support automatically expunging of criminal records of marijuana offenses.
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"Education and outreach for [expunging records] wasn't really given to any one agency, so it seems that more is being done at the local level to highlight this option for people who choose to clear their record," he told me.
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Tony Evers (D) says he will propose decriminalizing the possession of marijuana in his annual state budget proposal this year, adding that he will also propose expunging the criminal records of those who have completed their sentences for the charge.
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" Booker also points to his legislative record in the Senate, highlighting bills that he helped pass, "from criminal justice reform – legalizing marijuana and expunging records – to a federal jobs guarantee pilot program to get jobs to communities that need them.
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Foxx's rivals and other critics, including the police union, had tried to overshadow a record of reform praised by some experts, including the expunging of marijuana convictions, targeting gun violence and moving away from prosecuting nonviolent offenses, such as shoplifting.
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In "Trump Attacks Teddy Roosevelt's Grand Legacy," The New York Times editorial board writes: President Trump, ever intent on expunging the legacy of Barack Obama, is on the verge of undermining the priceless conservation vision of Theodore Roosevelt as well.
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"The pathway to expunging records is one of the most important passages of Proposition 64, but there hasn't been as much coverage, so people aren't aware they can benefit from it," said Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance interim director for California.
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By expunging the conviction of conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, and by hinting at more controversial pardons to come, Trump is showing his willingness to test the limits of his power and to crush the conventions and unwritten restraints surrounding the Oval Office.
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His platform calls for the full legalization of marijuana, the abolition of cash-bail programs, shifting the state's parole powers away from the governor's office and toward independent experts, and expunging criminal records for certain crimes to aid reentry and employment efforts.
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In 2014, for example, the legislature expanded immunity from people accused of murder or assault to people who fire "warning shots" and made it more difficult to track Stand Your Ground cases by expunging the records of people granted immunity under the law.
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" Chief Gallagher said in an interview on Fox News over the weekend that the president had told him in a phone call that he was "expunging everything in my record so I could retire honorably — basically it was like this thing had never happened.
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Kostadinova, who is still the world record holder with a jump of 2.09 meters from the 1987 world championships in Rome, said on Wednesday the suggestion of expunging all existing records would be "unfair to all (athletes) who absolutely honestly reached the peak of their careers".
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During almost nine years as San Francisco's district attorney, Mr. Gascón championed practices that have become central to the new breed of prosecutors — promoting alternatives to jail; gathering and relying on transparent data; limiting cash bail; expunging marijuana convictions; and deciding charges based on race-blind information.
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Last week, House Marijuana Policy Committee Chair Mark Cusack said the House and Senate agree on 80 percent of the bill's issues, with 20 percent of the differences comprised of disagreements around local control for banning dispensaries, the taxation rate, and expunging records for prior marijuana convictions.
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Though he has laid out some clear priorities -- granting citizenship to "Dreamers," expanding Medicare and legalizing marijuana while expunging marijuana possession-related convictions among them -- he didn't enter the race with the kinds of detailed policy plans some Democrats have brought with them into the 2020 contest.
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In addition to expunging the records of the students -- nine of whom were expelled and the rest placed on probation -- Interim State Superintendent of Education Ed Richardson also expunged the records of four faculty members who were disciplined by state officials for being "disloyal" during the same time.
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He called for closing private and for-profit prisons, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging the records of people previously convicted of possessing it, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent crimes, and reforming the bail system so people charged with misdemeanors would not be incarcerated because of their inability to pay.
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In the current period of reckoning, some are arguing that a wholesale expunging or erasure of work by sexual harassers is a small price to pay if it results in a thorough rethinking in creative industries, where the use of sex and power are particularly ill-defined and open to abuse.
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What's more, for my grandmother, living in a culture where a marriage sanctioned by the Catholic faith constituted a powerful aspect of personal identity, it's easy to imagine that the idea of expunging what was a very real union would have felt like an unforgivable lie (especially to tell before God).
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Bevin said he's hopeful Washington will look to reforms that have been enacted in his home state, including counseling for those dealing with drug and mental health issues, expunging records, restoring voting rights, permitting former prisoners to obtain business licenses and providing schooling and training to inmates while they're in prison.
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And it wasn't until this May—more than 20 years since the law was repealed—that Justice Minister Heiko Maas introduced the idea of expunging those convictions, which ruined the lives of many gay German men, and stifled the development of what could have been a thriving national queer culture.
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It will go some way towards expunging the memory of the humiliating flight of the army from the city seven months ago, when a numerically inferior IS force launched a stunning assault, spearheaded by at least 30 vehicular suicide-bombs, some of them armoured bulldozers packing enough explosive to demolish entire streets.
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The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site that promoted the march and celebrated its fatal outcome, was banned by the domain registrar and hosting service GoDaddy, then hours later by Google's hosting service, then lost access to SendGrid, which it had used to deliver its newsletter; PayPal cut off the white nationalist Richard Spencer's organization, which later lost access to its web host, Squarespace; Airbnb removed the accounts of a number of Charlottesville attendees before the event, and released a statement saying that ''violence, racism and hatred demonstrated by neo-Nazis, the alt-right and white supremacists should have no place in this world''; by Wednesday, Spotify was even expunging ''white supremacist'' music from its library.
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