It would just be my concern that the board wouldn't have access to that information, because my experience as a police officer is that there are often those plea arrangements made for good reason. As I said in my opening remarks, those agreements are arrived at for a reason, and this changes the landscape, obviously. To be frank, if all someone has is a simple possession charge as a result of a plea agreement from 10 years ago or five years ago and there's nothing else, I have no issue with that. But our experience, from a policing perspective, is that these people often are involved in a lot of other things. I agree with you: if that's the case, then they wouldn't be eligible to apply, but it's just giving that little bit more discretion to be able to confirm that.
On May 1st, 2019. See this statement in context.