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If citizens believe they qualify, they are urged to contact their attorney, or visit the Santa Clara County Sheriff's LiveScan Unit.The Assessor has developed an on line tool to look up basic information, such as assessed value and assessor's parcel number (APN), for real property in Santa Clara County.Ĭurrently you may research and print assessment information for individual parcels free of charge. There is currently no official notification system. The expungements are set to occur automatically each year for qualifying cases, and there is no need to apply. It's like getting a hug on a cold rainy day, man," said Montero. And so when society really wants to reintegrate and forgive low level offenders, it makes a world of a difference. We've been left behind, left out in different ways.

Oftentimes we go to criminal activity, because we don't feel like we fit in. Montero said broader efforts to welcome those with marijuana convictions lifts their spirits, and provides a much needed mental boost for many who have struggled with shame and guilt. And you start over."ĭaniel Montero expunged his misdemeanor marijuana charges several years ago with help from student activists at San Jose State, using lawyers and going through the traditional court system. "I would call this a very American idea, which is, once you've paid your debt to society. And to make that as easy as possible," said Rosen. "When somebody has served their debt to society, becomes crime-free and paid restitution to the victim, then we in this office want them to be able to reintegrate back into society.
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If all goes well, the DA's office will expunge more than 10,000 cases by the end of the year.ĭistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen said the team spent several hundred hours writing the code to automate the expungements, a time-consuming and sometimes arduous process that had been done manually. But later this summer, they will run 300 cases.
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The team of IT professionals and software experts have been running tests on small batches of several dozen misdemeanor cases. This newer system was built upon a previous system that was designed to expunge 15,000 misdemeanor marijuana convictions, after voters passed Prop 64 to legalize marijuana. Staffers have spent the previous two years writing code and testing the in-house software that expunges records from databases in court systems in Santa Clara County, as well as databases within the State of California, and the U.S. SAN JOSE (KPIX)- The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is preparing to significantly ramp up expungement of misdemeanor convictions in the coming months, setting a pace to clear the records of tens of thousands of qualifying cases per year, in what's being described as "Silicon Valley-style justice."
