Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety posted an update on the state’s mandated expungement of thousands of marijuana-related criminal records on Thursday, saying employees are “hard at work” to implement the automatic expungement process that was mandated under the legalization law signed by the governor last May.
In the interim, the state has added a new notice to all criminal history records, essentially letting reviewers know that certain marijuana records that appear on records checks may be pending expungement.
An initial analysis showed that more than 66,000 criminal records are eligible for automatic expungement under the Adult-Use Cannabis Act, the department’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced in June, while another 230,000 felony records are eligible for review by the Cannabis Expungement Board.
Additional criminal records will be expunged under the Clean Slate Act, a separate law passed last year that will automatically expunge records for non-violent, non-felony crimes beginning in January 2025. The department didn’t specify whether that would include any cannabis-related offenses not already eligible for expungement under the Adult-Use Cannabis Act, which affects records of activity made legal under the policy change.
“The BCA’s work to enable the automatic expungements of cannabis-related records is well underway,” the department
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