Ohio Fresh Start Act, Petition 2015

The Fresh Start Act is as an initiated statue developed by ResponsibleOhio, which also developed a defeated 2015 Ohio ballot measure to legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use. The Fresh Start Act was intended as a follow-up to the ballot measure (assuming it passed) to allow people with previous marijuana convictions to ask to have the conviction expunged from their records. The Act is modeled after a 2011 state law that allows people to ask to have conviction records expunged for certain firearms convictions that happened before prior law was changed so those violations are no longer a . . .