Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2003/01/16/headlines/news.txt
I'm all for stamping out illegal drug use but there must be a limit to what the police can do. Too bad those who were arrested didn't go ahead and sue the city.
The records were expunged, but couldn't this still cause problems in the future for those people?
Many employment applications ask if you have ever been arrested and you have to wonder how that will impact your job chances if you answer truthfully. Many government agencies do a FBI background check and I believe that will uncover arrests even if the court record was expunged. So for the rest of their lives they have to either try to explain the incident when aplying for new jobs or hope the background check doesn't discover the arrest (which could be grounds for dismissal).