FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS12) – For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine to sell to people who were then arrested by officers for purchasing crack cocaine.

It was a practice that the Florida State Supreme Court repeatedly called “outrageous” in its 1993 ruling that such setbacks violated a person’s right to due process. However, more than 30 years later, a routine document check revealed that hundreds of those arrests and convictions still remain on people’s books and criminal records.

On Friday, Broward County Prosecutor Harold Pryor announced that his office plans to do something about it, saying, “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”

“These records may be a faint memory or an unfortunate part of history for many, but they had a lasting and serious impact on the lives of the people who were arrested – as well as their families and the broader community,” Pryor added.

Prosecutors said that despite the Supreme Court’s decision, many cases were never dropped. That means they could still burden the lives of those charged in the unconstitutional program and impact their ability to get a job, find housing or show up on criminal background checks.

Anyone who thinks they could be affected by the measure is asked to contact the public prosecutor’s office. According to the figures provided in the statement, some estimates place the number of affected cases at up to 2,600.

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Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony has been made aware of the plan to vacate or vacate the convictions and sentences for those arrested and convicted as part of these setbacks and supports the plan, according to Pryor’s office.

“These matters existed long before our administration. However, I believe the state has an ethical duty and obligation to correct this injustice before commencing destruction (of old records),” Pryor wrote in a letter to Tony on Thursday outlining his office’s intentions explained.

Many of the records discovered during the audit were still there, even though the legal retention requirement no longer existed. Some of them may need to be destroyed.

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