Many Pasadena- and Altadena-area residents are among nearly 330,000 people in Los Angeles County now facing potential job loss, licensing consequences, and firearm prohibitions after the LA County Superior Court revealed that criminal convictions dating back more than 40 years inadvertently were never reported to the state.
The court confirmed the failure in a Feb. 24, 2026 annoucement, saying the error allowed many individuals to pass background checks that should have shown felony or misdemeanor convictions.
The court did not report approximately 464,005 arrest dispositions to the California Department of Justice between the early 1980s and 2023, including 147,631 felony convictions and 233,003 misdemeanor convictions, according to the court’s ADR Backlog Resource Page…