Prosecutors working with not-for-profit tech group to use algorithms to find eligible cases in decades-old court documents

Los Angeles moved this week to dismiss nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions, years after the state voted to legalize the drug.

The county is working with a not-for-profit technology organization, Code for America, to use algorithms to identify eligible cases within decades-old court documents.

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