The New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) announced Monday that they will be seeking millions of dollars' worth of damages after an unconstitutional Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) protocol left drivers with unjustly suspended licenses.
In 2019, a federal appeals court ruled a policy that revoked arrested taxi drivers’ licenses was unconstitutional following a 15-year court battle. Now NYTWA are calling on the city to “put things right.”
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of New York Taxi Workers Alliance, called the policy unjust since she says many licenses suspensions were a result of mostly non-violent and non-traffic-related arrests and charged. She further alleged that, in the majority of cases, criminal charges were eventually dismissed or reduced to non-criminal offenses, yet the drivers were still punished by their licensing agency before court sessions were even held.
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