District attorneys are seeing that workload surge too, Tupper said, and they often take longer than the 120 days allowed under the law to decide whether or not to object to an expungement request.

Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court is overseeing the expungement request. No hearing is ... his lawyer included a letter from Gerberry to the judge, stating “My actions ...

If the expungement request is accepted, the conviction would then be removed from any public police or court records. The governor signed several additional bills during a ceremony Tuesday afternoon.

DeSantis did not detail why he rejected the bill in his veto letter. His office did not immediately return a request for comment ... from being eligible for expungement. This year’s bill ...