National Expungement Week: Co-founder Tells Us How to Get Involved

National Expungement Week: Co-founder Tells Us How to Get Involved with Torie Marshall. Torie is the cofounder of National Expungement Week, Sept. 19-26, 2020, talks about exactly how and where individuals can find legal assistance to manage the complicated process of clearing and sealing past convictions from their permanent records. Marijuana possession arrests comprise the vast majority of all drug busts and a conviction can follow a person around for their entire lives, blocking them from getting a good job, housing, student loans, and in some cases, preventing them from voting. Therefore, expungement is crucial. And automatic expungement is the key, Ms. Marshall said, as a way of righting the wrongs of the racially biased War on Drugs, which decimated communities of color. Marshall specifically mentioned the work of tech company, Code for America’s Clear My Record, which expunged thousands of cannabis conviction records in California in minutes.