Q&A
Clarification on discrepancies in reported civil penalties for unlicensed cannabis shops
0:56:29
·
131 sec
Council Member Brannan seeks clarification on the discrepancies between various reported figures for civil penalties issued to unlicensed cannabis shops. Sheriff Miranda explains the differences and provides information on the current status of fine collection.
- Total penalties issued include violations for both cannabis and tobacco products
- Cannabis-related fines specifically total about $31 million
- The process for paying fines has not fully matured, with only about $200,000 collected so far
- There's a legal timeframe of at least 120 days before unpaid fines become judgment debt
Justin L. Brannan
0:56:29
Okay.
0:56:29
Just have a couple more.
0:56:30
According to mayor Adams, the administration has issued more than $65,000,000 in civil penalties as of August 4th at unlicensed cannabis shops since the launch of operation padlock to protect back in May.
0:56:43
However, according to open data on oath, on the hearing division's case stat statuses, the sheriff's office has only issued approximately 12,000,000 Just 10,000,000 of which was upheld by oath.
0:56:57
And then in your letter yesterday, you said the total value of civil penalties issued for cannabis related violations is about $30,000,725,000.
0:57:09
$31,000,000.
0:57:10
So can you explain how you arrived at the $31,000,000 number and and why there's a a a difference between what you've stated and what the mayor and oath have stated?
Anthony Miranda
0:57:21
Again, operation pallets of Protect not does not only issue cannabis violations.
0:57:26
They issue violations for tobacco products as well.
0:57:29
So there are other things that have to take place in these inspections that we uncover, and we have to take the summary action as necessary.
0:57:35
That's why you get to the $104,000,000 of penalties that were issued.
0:57:40
However, when you specifically asked for cannabis related fines, then we took the amount of value of flower cannabis, the edibles, and I think there was one other product, the THC vapes.
0:57:54
So we added those totals separately of what we sees and the value was, and then we put that we put that in the numbers.
Justin L. Brannan
0:57:59
Do you have an idea of how much of of those fines have been paid as of today?
Anthony Miranda
0:58:04
Again, I think as we spoke earlier, the process for paying the fines has not come to fruition yet.
0:58:09
There are at least a 120 days if not more before they become judgment debt.
0:58:13
I believe that old has collected closer over the more than $200,000 and and old when they when people pay it ahead of time.
0:58:21
But the process for collection has an entire time frame legal time frame that they can abide by getting extensions agernments, and then, therefore, they will not come to the place of collection by the sheriff's office until they become a judgment debt.
0:58:36
And that is still we have started still not reached that maturity date yet.
