A decision by the Alaska Supreme Court will remove from an online database around 750 marijuana possession convictions.
The order signed by the court’s five justice will remove these marijuana convictions from Courtview, the state’s official online database of court cases which is useable by the public. The records will still be available for inspection at courthouses and through formal criminal background checks, but they won’t be readily available to the public.
“I’m glad that the Supreme Court has ordered this,” says Senator Scott Kawasaki.