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But the genesis of his decision received far less attention—and had nothing to do with car insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was prompted, at least in part, by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October 2017 granting motorists the option of listing their gender as male, female or nonbinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mindful of all the people I know who are gender-nonconforming, and the families I know with transgender children, I wanted to make sure that California continued to be a leader in gender-identity equality,” said Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, who introduced the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobbyists for insurance companies had been neutral on the bill, having received assurances that it would have no impact on auto insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rex Frazier, president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, which represents several major auto insurance companies, said insurers were blindsided by Jones’ justification for the regulation, pointing out that none of the 10 legislative analyses of the bill made any mention of potential impacts on insurance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is commonly understood that teenage male drivers are generally a higher risk than teenage female drivers,” Frazier said in a letter to the Department of Insurance. “Eliminating gender rating would require female teenage drivers to subsidize teenage male drivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier said the gender of teen drivers can result in an additional cost for boys or discount for girls of about 6 percent on their premiums. Drivers who list their gender as nonbinary probably would have been given a lower cost than boys, he said, though under the new rule, it's a moot point, as gender cannot be taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate letter to the Insurance Department, the American Insurance Association, an insurance trade group, wrote: “Senate Bill 179 was designed to reduce barriers to existing name and gender change procedures. The bill was never intended, nor was it drafted, to affect established and demonstrated insurance rating factors such as gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association also cited a 2016 Insurance Institute report saying: “Men typically drive more miles than women and more often engage in risky driving practices, including not using safety belts, driving while impaired by alcohol, and speeding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rule-making process, Jones responded to the insurance groups by stating that “the Legislature may not have specifically intended to eliminate gender-based insurance rating” but that Atkins’ legislation had “relevance as a statement of California’s values around the role of gender in society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview Tuesday, Jones said the “the real driver for the change was that there was really no consistency with regard to how insurers were using gender as a rating factor.” Additionally, he said, gender is “not a characteristic that is within your control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atkins said in a statement Tuesday that her bill did not address the insurance-rate question, but that she supports “efforts to ensure that all genders are treated equally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, it’s imperative that these changes be made thoughtfully and with strong input from Californians,” Atkins statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog had long advocated for the change, saying in a statement, “Gender and sex have no more place in what we pay for auto insurance than race or ethnicity do. These new rules will finally end gender-based discrimination in auto insurance pricing in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies must submit gender-neutral pricing policies to the Insurance Department by July 1. The new pricing would take effect after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier has called on the Department of Insurance to at least permit insurance companies to take into account the age of drivers and new car safety features when setting rates. Decisions on those requests are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org \u003c/a>is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California auto insurers will no longer be able to offer discounted rates to female teen drivers, a largely unforeseen result of the state's new gender identity law.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1549586971,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":788},"headData":{"title":"What California’s ‘Nonbinary’ Gender Designation Will Cost Teen Drivers | KQED","description":"California auto insurers will no longer be able to offer discounted rates to female teen drivers, a largely unforeseen result of the state's new gender identity law.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What California’s ‘Nonbinary’ Gender Designation Will Cost Teen Drivers","datePublished":"2019-02-08T00:47:33.000Z","dateModified":"2019-02-08T00:49:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11724581 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11724581","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/07/what-californias-nonbinary-gender-designation-will-cost-teen-drivers/","disqusTitle":"What California’s ‘Nonbinary’ Gender Designation Will Cost Teen Drivers","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Dan Morain\u003cbr>CALmatters\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11724581/what-californias-nonbinary-gender-designation-will-cost-teen-drivers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In a little-noticed side effect of California’s 2018 law granting drivers the option of listing their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/gender-x-california-may-first-state-create-broad-nonbinary-option/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender as nonbinary\u003c/a>, California’s Department of Insurance has decreed that auto insurance companies can no longer offer female teen drivers lower rates than their male counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outgoing Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, in one of his final acts in office, issued a regulation last month prohibiting the use of gender in automobile insurance rating, similar to regulations in six other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ replacement, Ricardo Lara, supports that policy, saying in a statement, “Gender, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation are beyond your control, and it is not a fair or even an effective way to predict risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ regulatory action received coverage in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/your-money/car-insurance-gender-california.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a> and elsewhere. But the genesis of his decision received far less attention—and had nothing to do with car insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was prompted, at least in part, by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> signed by Gov. 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Drivers who list their gender as nonbinary probably would have been given a lower cost than boys, he said, though under the new rule, it's a moot point, as gender cannot be taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate letter to the Insurance Department, the American Insurance Association, an insurance trade group, wrote: “Senate Bill 179 was designed to reduce barriers to existing name and gender change procedures. 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These new rules will finally end gender-based discrimination in auto insurance pricing in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies must submit gender-neutral pricing policies to the Insurance Department by July 1. The new pricing would take effect after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier has called on the Department of Insurance to at least permit insurance companies to take into account the age of drivers and new car safety features when setting rates. 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These are licenses and IDs that will be required to board a domestic flight, enter federal buildings and visit military installations starting in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what Californians need to know about Real ID licenses, how to get them and how necessary they will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What is a Real ID driver's license or identification card?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a license or ID that is compliant with the Real ID Act, a law passed by Congress in 2005 following 9/11 that sought to create standardized driver's licenses in all states. The law established certain national security requirements for these state-issued documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, travelers boarding domestic commercial flights, entering a military base or using their ID for other federal purposes will need to present a Real ID-compliant driver's license or state ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While non-compliant licenses or IDs won't be accepted, people can present other federally compliant documents, such as a passport, passport card or military ID for taking flights and other federal uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Is obtaining a Real ID license or identification card necessary?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it is not. \"A Real ID driver's license or ID card is optional,\" said DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez. \"It is just an easier way for you to continue using your driver's license to board a domestic flight. That is really the main part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who don't wish to obtain a Real ID license or state identification may apply for what's called a \"federal non-compliant\" driver's license or ID card. The card will be marked with the words \"federal limits apply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who choose this option may continue to use their state licenses to drive and use them as they do now. But they won't be able to use them starting in 2020 for taking a domestic flight, for example. If they don't have a Real ID license or identification card, they'll need to present a passport or other approved document to fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How does this affect AB 60 driver's license holders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California DMV, the changes don't apply to the nearly 1 million immigrants who have driver's licenses under AB 60, the law that allows unauthorized immigrants in the state to apply for the licenses. According to the DMV, only people who are legally in the United States may apply for a Real ID license or identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you already have an AB 60 driver's license, when it is time for you to renew, you can just continue to renew by mail, or online as normal,\" said the DMV's Gonzalez. She added that AB 60 license applicants' information will not be shared with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Must those who want a Real ID license apply right away?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, there is no rush, according to DMV officials. Until Oct. 1, 2020, a valid California driver's license may still be used to board a domestic flight or to enter a secure facility. Today is simply the date that the Real ID option becomes available to California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How do I apply?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wishing to apply for a Real ID license or identification card must do so in person at a DMV office. Applicants must make an appointment and come prepared with proof of California residency, proof of their Social Security number, and proof of identity such as a U.S. passport, a birth certificate, an employment authorization document, a permanent resident card (green card) or a foreign passport with an approved form I-94 arrival and departure record. The DMV has posted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/2db22455-e270-47a3-819c-d7c7716d5194/List_of_Docs_REALID.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">list of documents\u003c/a> that Real ID applicants may use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is the same as for a regular California driver's license, $35. The cost is $30 for state ID cards. DMV officials said the processing time should be about four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California DMV begins accepting applications today for \"Real ID\" driver's licenses and IDs. Starting in 2020, you'll need Real ID-compliant identification to board a domestic flight.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516668327,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":679},"headData":{"title":"What You Need to Know About California 'Real-ID' Driver's Licenses | KQED","description":"The California DMV begins accepting applications today for "Real ID" driver's licenses and IDs. Starting in 2020, you'll need Real ID-compliant identification to board a domestic flight.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What You Need to Know About California 'Real-ID' Driver's Licenses","datePublished":"2018-01-22T22:33:19.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-23T00:45:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11643609 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11643609","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/22/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-drivers-licenses/","disqusTitle":"What You Need to Know About California 'Real-ID' Driver's Licenses","source":"KPCC","sourceUrl":"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/22/79986/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-dri/","nprByline":"Leslie Berestein Rojas\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/22/79986/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-dri/\">KPCC\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11643609/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-drivers-licenses","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles begins accepting applications today for \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/realid\">\"Real ID\"\u003c/a> driver's licenses and state identification cards. These are licenses and IDs that will be required to board a domestic flight, enter federal buildings and visit military installations starting in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what Californians need to know about Real ID licenses, how to get them and how necessary they will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: What is a Real ID driver's license or identification card?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a license or ID that is compliant with the Real ID Act, a law passed by Congress in 2005 following 9/11 that sought to create standardized driver's licenses in all states. The law established certain national security requirements for these state-issued documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, travelers boarding domestic commercial flights, entering a military base or using their ID for other federal purposes will need to present a Real ID-compliant driver's license or state ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While non-compliant licenses or IDs won't be accepted, people can present other federally compliant documents, such as a passport, passport card or military ID for taking flights and other federal uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Is obtaining a Real ID license or identification card necessary?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, it is not. \"A Real ID driver's license or ID card is optional,\" said DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez. \"It is just an easier way for you to continue using your driver's license to board a domestic flight. That is really the main part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who don't wish to obtain a Real ID license or state identification may apply for what's called a \"federal non-compliant\" driver's license or ID card. The card will be marked with the words \"federal limits apply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians who choose this option may continue to use their state licenses to drive and use them as they do now. But they won't be able to use them starting in 2020 for taking a domestic flight, for example. If they don't have a Real ID license or identification card, they'll need to present a passport or other approved document to fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How does this affect AB 60 driver's license holders?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California DMV, the changes don't apply to the nearly 1 million immigrants who have driver's licenses under AB 60, the law that allows unauthorized immigrants in the state to apply for the licenses. According to the DMV, only people who are legally in the United States may apply for a Real ID license or identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you already have an AB 60 driver's license, when it is time for you to renew, you can just continue to renew by mail, or online as normal,\" said the DMV's Gonzalez. She added that AB 60 license applicants' information will not be shared with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: Must those who want a Real ID license apply right away?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, there is no rush, according to DMV officials. Until Oct. 1, 2020, a valid California driver's license may still be used to board a domestic flight or to enter a secure facility. Today is simply the date that the Real ID option becomes available to California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Q: How do I apply?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those wishing to apply for a Real ID license or identification card must do so in person at a DMV office. Applicants must make an appointment and come prepared with proof of California residency, proof of their Social Security number, and proof of identity such as a U.S. passport, a birth certificate, an employment authorization document, a permanent resident card (green card) or a foreign passport with an approved form I-94 arrival and departure record. The DMV has posted a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/2db22455-e270-47a3-819c-d7c7716d5194/List_of_Docs_REALID.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">list of documents\u003c/a> that Real ID applicants may use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is the same as for a regular California driver's license, $35. The cost is $30 for state ID cards. DMV officials said the processing time should be about four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11643609/what-you-need-to-know-about-california-real-id-drivers-licenses","authors":["byline_news_11643609"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20281","news_17636","news_17940","news_22419","news_17286","news_17041"],"affiliates":["news_7055"],"featImg":"news_11643619","label":"source_news_11643609"},"news_10839378":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10839378","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10839378","score":null,"sort":[1453449933000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"millions-of-californians-could-regain-drivers-licenses-under-new-bill","title":"Millions of Californians Could Regain Driver's Licenses Under New Bill","publishDate":1453449933,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, May 31, 4:08 p.m:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted today to stop the DMV from automatically suspending the license of drivers solely because they failed to pay or show up in court for minor traffic violations. SB881 also directs the DMV to restore driving privileges to Californians with traffic debt due to minor offenses by July 2017. Under a recent amendment, drivers would no longer have to request the DMV to get their licenses back. The legislation does not include violations related to driving under the influence or reckless driving. SB881 heads next to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles would not be allowed to suspend a driver's license solely because the driver did not pay for minor traffic tickets or missed a court deadline related to those infractions, under a new bill introduced to the Legislature last week by California Sen. Bob Hertzberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0851-0900/sb_881_bill_20160115_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">SB881\u003c/a>, would also allow the DMV to restore driving privileges to potentially millions of Californians with unpaid traffic tickets for minor violations. Eligible drivers would have to submit a request to the department to regain their license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's just certain kinds of minor offenses where you shouldn't lose your license, because the license is just too important to your livelihood,\" said Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), adding that his bill aims to fix this part of the criminal justice system to \"align the nature of the harm with the nature of the punishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone gets a broken tail light or something like that, should they lose their license? Our answer is no. But if they are caught drunk driving, should they lose their license? Of course,\" said Hertzberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"0KkxfierWJMoOqtoZLS8roOli7Bnts24\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/drivers-license-suspensions-perpetuate-challenges-criminal-justice-debt\" target=\"_blank\">other states\u003c/a>, license suspensions are currently used by the courts as a way to pressure drivers into paying traffic tickets and other court-imposed fines, which can snowball quickly into hundreds of dollars if drivers miss payment deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court for violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That practice has resulted in over 4.8 million Californians -- many of whom are low income or people of color -- having their driver's licenses revoked for minor violations, said Elisa Della-Piana, legal director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, an SB881 sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Della-Piana \u003ca href=\"http://www.lccr.com/wp-content/uploads/Not-Just-a-Ferguson-Problem-How-Traffic-Courts-Drive-Inequality-in-California-4.8.15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">co-authored the report\u003c/a> \"Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California,\" which found that the loss of a driver's license often plunges low-income Californians deeper into poverty because it hinders their ability to keep or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the past eight years we've seen people flooding into our legal clinics who could have a job if they had a driver's license,\" said Della-Piana. \"And so for this (issue) to be at the forefront of the California state Legislature's agenda, for this to be on the governor's radar, gives me so much hope that those 4.8 million Californians will get the relief that they've needed for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 'Hellhole of Desperation'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hellhole of desperation includes the permanent loss of a car for some drivers with suspended licenses. If law enforcement catches a driver at the wheel with a revoked license, they may impound the driver's vehicle for a statutory 30-day period, even if the initial violations that resulted in the license suspension were minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, over two-thirds of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to non-DUI offenses, according to the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED/Peninsula Press \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> found that in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008. More than half of the cars Menlo Park police impounded in those incidents were never recovered by owners, possibly due to the city's steep 30-day impound charges -- with a minimum price tag of $2,300 -- that owners must pay mostly to towing companies to get their cars back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is statewide, as towing companies are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their vehicles after a 30-day impound, the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Hertzberg says allowing drivers with minor violations to keep their licenses could help the state recover some of that money, because drivers could drive legally to work and earn a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would actually gain money for the system and at the same time create a sense of fairness for folks,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Could Still Use Debt Collectors, Amnesty Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if drivers are allowed to keep their driver's licenses, will they still pay their traffic tickets? Hertzberg says yes. Under SB881, courts could still contract with private debt collectors to accrue delinquent debt. Other collection measures include placing liens on a debtor's real estate property, and garnishing wages and bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statewide \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/trafficamnesty.htm\" target=\"_blank\">traffic amnesty\u003c/a> program that will continue through March 31, 2017, also aims to recover some of that debt. Depending on income, drivers with traffic infractions before 2013 will get their debt reduced by 50 to 80 percent and get their licenses reinstated if they sign up to pay that reduced amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, a mother of two from Hayward, found out she does not qualify for amnesty because her traffic violations occurred after 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S9tY4nx9VriLhENAKr5iIfWQZDXlLu2Z\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, an administrative assistant at a home insurance company, says that losing her driving privilege has become a huge burden: traveling 20 miles to her job takes a lot longer by public transportation than driving. Not being able to legally drive also makes it harder to get groceries on rainy days and pick up her two kids from school. Transportation became such a tough issue for her family that she had to pull her children from baseball practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now they are not in sports because I can't drive them anywhere,\" said Campos, 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get her license back, Campos says she would have to pay more than $2,300 in fines that have been tacked on to the original cost of her traffic ticket. It's money she says she doesn't have. That's why she considers Sen. Hertzberg's bill welcome news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting my license back would just take a lot of weight and stress off my shoulders,\" says Campos, who struggled with depression after her license was suspended in 2014. \"I'd be able to just focus at work and not have to leave earlier to catch a bus so I can pick up my children on time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB881 has no official opposition yet, but that could arise during the bill's first hearing at the Senate Public Safety Committee or the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee in the next few months, according to Hertzberg's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story initially reported that under SB881, the DMV could suspend a driver’s license only for serious traffic violations related to DUIs and reckless driving. While the bill aims to help drivers with minor traffic offenses, it does not take away the DMV's legal authority to suspend a driver's license for all instances of minor offenses, such as accumulating several speeding tickets in one year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The legislation would allow restoration of driving privileges to potentially millions of Californians with unpaid tickets for minor violations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1464737613,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1345},"headData":{"title":"Millions of Californians Could Regain Driver's Licenses Under New Bill | KQED","description":"The legislation would allow restoration of driving privileges to potentially millions of Californians with unpaid tickets for minor violations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Millions of Californians Could Regain Driver's Licenses Under New Bill","datePublished":"2016-01-22T08:05:33.000Z","dateModified":"2016-05-31T23:33:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10839378 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10839378","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/22/millions-of-californians-could-regain-drivers-licenses-under-new-bill/","disqusTitle":"Millions of Californians Could Regain Driver's Licenses Under New Bill","nprStoryId":"463923281","path":"/news/10839378/millions-of-californians-could-regain-drivers-licenses-under-new-bill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, May 31, 4:08 p.m:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted today to stop the DMV from automatically suspending the license of drivers solely because they failed to pay or show up in court for minor traffic violations. SB881 also directs the DMV to restore driving privileges to Californians with traffic debt due to minor offenses by July 2017. Under a recent amendment, drivers would no longer have to request the DMV to get their licenses back. The legislation does not include violations related to driving under the influence or reckless driving. SB881 heads next to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles would not be allowed to suspend a driver's license solely because the driver did not pay for minor traffic tickets or missed a court deadline related to those infractions, under a new bill introduced to the Legislature last week by California Sen. Bob Hertzberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0851-0900/sb_881_bill_20160115_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">SB881\u003c/a>, would also allow the DMV to restore driving privileges to potentially millions of Californians with unpaid traffic tickets for minor violations. Eligible drivers would have to submit a request to the department to regain their license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's just certain kinds of minor offenses where you shouldn't lose your license, because the license is just too important to your livelihood,\" said Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), adding that his bill aims to fix this part of the criminal justice system to \"align the nature of the harm with the nature of the punishment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone gets a broken tail light or something like that, should they lose their license? Our answer is no. But if they are caught drunk driving, should they lose their license? Of course,\" said Hertzberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/drivers-license-suspensions-perpetuate-challenges-criminal-justice-debt\" target=\"_blank\">other states\u003c/a>, license suspensions are currently used by the courts as a way to pressure drivers into paying traffic tickets and other court-imposed fines, which can snowball quickly into hundreds of dollars if drivers miss payment deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court for violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That practice has resulted in over 4.8 million Californians -- many of whom are low income or people of color -- having their driver's licenses revoked for minor violations, said Elisa Della-Piana, legal director for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, an SB881 sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Della-Piana \u003ca href=\"http://www.lccr.com/wp-content/uploads/Not-Just-a-Ferguson-Problem-How-Traffic-Courts-Drive-Inequality-in-California-4.8.15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">co-authored the report\u003c/a> \"Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California,\" which found that the loss of a driver's license often plunges low-income Californians deeper into poverty because it hinders their ability to keep or find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the past eight years we've seen people flooding into our legal clinics who could have a job if they had a driver's license,\" said Della-Piana. \"And so for this (issue) to be at the forefront of the California state Legislature's agenda, for this to be on the governor's radar, gives me so much hope that those 4.8 million Californians will get the relief that they've needed for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A 'Hellhole of Desperation'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hellhole of desperation includes the permanent loss of a car for some drivers with suspended licenses. If law enforcement catches a driver at the wheel with a revoked license, they may impound the driver's vehicle for a statutory 30-day period, even if the initial violations that resulted in the license suspension were minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, over two-thirds of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to non-DUI offenses, according to the DMV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED/Peninsula Press \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/17/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> found that in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008. More than half of the cars Menlo Park police impounded in those incidents were never recovered by owners, possibly due to the city's steep 30-day impound charges -- with a minimum price tag of $2,300 -- that owners must pay mostly to towing companies to get their cars back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is statewide, as towing companies are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their vehicles after a 30-day impound, the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Hertzberg says allowing drivers with minor violations to keep their licenses could help the state recover some of that money, because drivers could drive legally to work and earn a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would actually gain money for the system and at the same time create a sense of fairness for folks,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Could Still Use Debt Collectors, Amnesty Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if drivers are allowed to keep their driver's licenses, will they still pay their traffic tickets? Hertzberg says yes. Under SB881, courts could still contract with private debt collectors to accrue delinquent debt. Other collection measures include placing liens on a debtor's real estate property, and garnishing wages and bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statewide \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/trafficamnesty.htm\" target=\"_blank\">traffic amnesty\u003c/a> program that will continue through March 31, 2017, also aims to recover some of that debt. Depending on income, drivers with traffic infractions before 2013 will get their debt reduced by 50 to 80 percent and get their licenses reinstated if they sign up to pay that reduced amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, a mother of two from Hayward, found out she does not qualify for amnesty because her traffic violations occurred after 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, an administrative assistant at a home insurance company, says that losing her driving privilege has become a huge burden: traveling 20 miles to her job takes a lot longer by public transportation than driving. Not being able to legally drive also makes it harder to get groceries on rainy days and pick up her two kids from school. Transportation became such a tough issue for her family that she had to pull her children from baseball practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now they are not in sports because I can't drive them anywhere,\" said Campos, 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get her license back, Campos says she would have to pay more than $2,300 in fines that have been tacked on to the original cost of her traffic ticket. It's money she says she doesn't have. That's why she considers Sen. Hertzberg's bill welcome news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting my license back would just take a lot of weight and stress off my shoulders,\" says Campos, who struggled with depression after her license was suspended in 2014. \"I'd be able to just focus at work and not have to leave earlier to catch a bus so I can pick up my children on time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB881 has no official opposition yet, but that could arise during the bill's first hearing at the Senate Public Safety Committee or the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee in the next few months, according to Hertzberg's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This story initially reported that under SB881, the DMV could suspend a driver’s license only for serious traffic violations related to DUIs and reckless driving. While the bill aims to help drivers with minor traffic offenses, it does not take away the DMV's legal authority to suspend a driver's license for all instances of minor offenses, such as accumulating several speeding tickets in one year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10839378/millions-of-californians-could-regain-drivers-licenses-under-new-bill","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_17636","news_17940","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10840510","label":"news_72"},"news_10566848":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10566848","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10566848","score":null,"sort":[1438794022000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","title":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","publishDate":1438794022,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Rene Macedo Nolasco, a night shift worker, was driving home late at night on May 2 from his job at the Tesla Motors plant in Fremont when he noticed flashing lights in his rearview mirror. Twenty minutes later, a Menlo Park police officer had cited him for driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor. His blue 2006 Audi, which he had purchased a few days before for $6,000, was towed to an impound lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco could have reclaimed his car in 30 days — if he'd had the money to cover the $60 to $80 daily tow yard storage charges, plus other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to get it out from the impound lot because it’s too much money,” said Macedo Nolasco, 27, a father of two. The minimum amount he would have had to pay is $2,300, more than a third of the Audi’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police citations and vehicle impounds for driving with a suspended license nearly tripled from 2008 to 2014, making this misdemeanor the top crime in the city, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of data from the Police Department. Many impounded cars are never recovered by owners, according to interviews with drivers and supervisors at towing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of citations and impounds occurred on the east side of the city, where most of the regional commuter traffic zooms through. But police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they are not targeting minorities. They attribute the steady rise in incidents to more policing aimed at responding to residents worried about safety, and point to a reduction in violent crime and traffic accidents last year as proof that the strategy is working. Drivers who have been cited say the rules and police attention make their lives harder and are unfairly resulting in stops and citations against Latinos and African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco’s troubles began over seven years ago, when he gambled on driving with an expired registration and lost. Then he got other traffic citations that he couldn’t afford to pay, so his license was suspended. He could have taken the bus to work, but the trip takes over an hour, so he gambled again and kept driving — until that stop in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he usually takes the bus and relies on his mom to pick him up at 4 a.m. when his shift ends. She recently loaned him her van so that he could make the 17-mile trip to work, praying that he wouldn’t be stopped and get her car towed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very stressful. It affects the whole family,” said his mother, Olga Nolasco, a house cleaner who just last year also saw her daughter Janet’s car get impounded because of a revoked license. “It’s not fair that they take their cars away. How are they going to get to work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the suspended license citations in Menlo Park, 71 percent resulted in police officers impounding the driver’s vehicle for the statutory 30-day period, according to police data from more than seven years, from 2008 to April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUFeUBHeZdA&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many drivers lose their cars permanently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impound costs in Menlo Park and in other Bay Area cities, such as San Francisco and San Jose, are significantly higher than in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, and sometimes add up to more than the car is worth, according to interviews and research into impound policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than half of the cars impounded for 30 days are picked up by owners and the numbers of owners retrieving their vehicles are significantly down from 2008, according to managers at three towing companies working with Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the cars that we tow for Menlo Park police get left and never get picked up,” said Jeff from Ed’s Cradle and Tow in Mountain View, who declined to give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towers statewide are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their cars after a 30-day impound, said Quinn Piening, chairman of the California Tow Truck Association Greater Bay Area Chapter. Piening believes drivers with serial suspended license citations in particular opt out of paying for impound costs and surrender their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go and buy another cheap vehicle and just drive it,” Piening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles left in the impound lots are sold by towing companies at auctions or to a junkyard. The lien sale proceeds go to cover the amount these companies charge for towing and daily storage. If the sale isn’t enough to cover that cost, the registered owners may lose their vehicle and still be on the hook for the rest of the tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towing companies have a tough time recovering any remaining debt after a lien sale, said Piening, and as a result, his company — Central Towing & Transport — and others he knows of are not profiting as much as they used to from these tows six years ago. Contributing to lower profits is a drop in the total number of tows ordered by police for other violations in the five cities his company works with, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tow companies are not getting rich in this business by any stretch of doing law enforcement work,” Piening said. “When we were towing 30-day impounds and the vehicles were valued at $5,000, that was one thing. But today we are towing vehicles that are valued under $1,000 and you can’t find people to buy them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others believe that state law on impounds benefits tow yards at the expense of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a good set of laws? Does it make sense from a public policy standpoint? Is it abused by people running tow yards?” asked Donald W. Cook, a Los Angeles-based attorney who is challenging the 30-day impound policy for unlicensed drivers in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa and other California cities. “The only answer is, of course, it’s abused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he is seeking a court order to make California release statewide records for vehicles impounded for 30 days, which are included in the Department of Justice Stolen Vehicle System database. Cook likens these types of impounds to “stealing people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 30-day impound statute is used to victimize the people who are most vulnerable to it. Basically the poor, a large segment of which are illegals,” added Cook, referring to undocumented drivers. “Many of them can’t afford it. They lose their vehicle and get nothing for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not track relevant towing data, such as the reason cars end up at lien sale auctions, the local agency that ordered the impound in the first place or the ethnicity of drivers — making it difficult to estimate the ethnic makeup of license suspensions. The City of Menlo Park declined to disclose how many of those vehicles were retrieved by owners or more information about the drivers, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But publicly available police logs from the last two months suggest these citations and impounds disproportionately impact minorities driving in Menlo Park: 68 percent were Latino, while 16 percent were African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race, but has everything to do with income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini said low-income drivers often come to the attention of officers because of mechanical failures of their cars, such as a broken tail light or excessive exhaust. They are also more likely than affluent drivers to have the DMV suspend their license, when they fail to appear in court or don’t pay traffic tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the original amounts of traffic tickets can double or triple because of various added-on fees, penalties and other mandatory payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ticket with a $100 base fine, such as failure to carry proof of auto insurance, costs $490 after fees and assessments. The price jumps to $730, plus other court fees, if the driver misses the initial deadline to pay the ticket, according to the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules by the Judicial Council of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many low-income drivers are unable to pay such fines. A recent survey by the Federal Reserve found that the majority of Americans with incomes of less than $40,000 a year would struggle to pay an emergency expense of $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-income and minority drivers hit the hardest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, over 4 million people have their driver’s licenses suspended because they can’t afford to pay a traffic ticket or miss a court deadline, according to a recent report by the East Bay Community Law Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and other groups. This number excludes license suspensions because of driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing cost of traffic tickets and the closing of court doors to drivers who miss a deadline are contributing to an explosion in the number of drivers whose licenses are revoked, according to the report. Some courts may have required full payment of a ticket before scheduling a court date, said Teresa Ruano, spokeswoman for the Judicial Council of California, which sets policy for the statewide court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address rising concerns about access to justice, the council issued a new rule in June that allows drivers to fight a ticket in court without first having to deposit the full amount of the ticket. This policy change, which took effect immediately, does not apply to drivers who already missed a court deadline to appear or pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.” The Legislature approved in June a traffic amnesty program proposed by Brown that would help some drivers regain their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is urgent as police citations and vehicle impounds for suspended licenses are hitting record numbers throughout the state, said Elisa Della-Piana, co-author of the report “Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California.” After the report was published in April, Della-Piana’s organization was contacted by people reporting more impounds in various cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happens disproportionately to people of color,” said Della-Piana, who is director of programs at the East Bay Community Law Center. She cited San Diego Police Department statistics showing that African-American and Latino drivers were stopped and searched at a higher rate than white drivers in 2014. “There’s clearly racial bias in traffic stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a driver’s license suspended and the potential loss of a vehicle because of an impound hurts the livelihood of individuals, forcing some families into welfare, Della-Piana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t keep a job because the job requires them to drive,” Della-Piana said. “We see person after person who has an active job offer that they can’t take because they don’t have a driver’s license just because they couldn’t afford to pay a traffic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, the sister of driver Rene Macedo Nolasco, missed her court date for an unpaid speeding ticket and had her license suspended. Last year, a Menlo Park police officer stopped her for failing to use a turn signal, and then cited her for driving while on a revoked license. He impounded her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I was breaking the law. But it was just driving home,” said Campos, an unemployed mother of two boys. “I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t on drugs. And to basically get my whole life turned around in one split second. … I mean, don’t make the law so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos and her husband, a construction worker, cobbled the thousands of dollars needed to retrieve their impounded car. But the couple can’t afford to pay additional fees to get her license reinstated, which she says ballooned to $2,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she can’t legally drive, her options for finding employment are limited to minimum-wage jobs at a Walgreens and Safeway that are walking distance from her Hayward home. That in turn, dampens her prospects for earning enough money to pay for her driver’s license fines, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely overwhelming,” said Campos, adding that she has struggled with depression after losing her license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alcohol-related accidents spur seizures and impound law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1995, police officers lacked the authority to seize and impound the vehicles of motorists driving with a suspended license. Public furor over alcohol-related accidents and deaths prompted the California Legislature to approve a bill that would change that. The ensuing Vehicle Code section 14602.6 authorizes officers to seize and impound for 30 days the vehicles of drivers whose licenses were revoked because of DUIs and other violations, including failure to appear in court and pay traffic fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But statewide and local figures show that the majority of suspensions and citations are not due to DUIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, less than a third of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to DUIs, according to the DMV. In Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, the Menlo Park police commander, recognizes that the rules for license suspensions and impounds have become “a vicious cycle” for drivers without the resources to pay fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, a former traffic officer, has seen firsthand the disproportionate impact citations can have on low-income drivers. His tickets came with a stern warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t ignore this. If you ignore this, bad things will happen because they’ll suspend your license, you’ll get a warrant, then you’ll be caught driving on a suspended license, then you’ll get arrested and then they’ll take your car,” Bertini recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini attributes the growing rise in incidents in Menlo Park to a renewed focus on public safety and traffic enforcement. After Facebook moved to the Belle Haven neighborhood on the east side of Menlo Park in 2011, the city held a series of meetings with Belle Haven residents concerned about gang shootings in the area and “people driving crazy,” Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2011 and 2013, all of Menlo Park’s 44 shootings — including three murders — were in Belle Haven or within a mile radius. But no violent gun incidents have occurred there or elsewhere in the city since January 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes are developing as Belle Haven, where most Latino and African-American residents live, is undergoing swift gentrification. As elsewhere in the region, housing costs continue to rise and low-income residents move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of drive-through traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park realized they had a serious problem with traffic accidents a few years back. The city ranked among the top 10 in the state for fatal and injury collisions when compared with cities of similar size in 2012, the most recent figures by the California Office of Traffic Safety show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the Menlo Park Police Department to reassign two officers to a previously defunct traffic unit in 2013, and to instruct patrol officers to do traffic enforcement with special focus on congested avenues on the east, as well as the less busy streets of Belle Haven, said Bertini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most of the 1,819 citations during the last seven years took place in this part of the city. Few occurred in the affluent neighborhoods on the west side of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the number of traffic collisions dropped 20 percent from the year before, Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we saturated that area with police officers, they are going to make more stops,” Bertini said. “That is due to the fact that residents have been fed up and they want their community to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willert Waller, who grew up in Belle Haven, has noticed the heightened police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like every other day coming home from work, I see somebody pulled over, no matter what time of the day,” said Waller, 48, adding that most of the people he sees police stop are Latino and African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 20, Waller was stopped because his registration tags had just expired. His license had been revoked years back because of an unpaid ticket for driving without insurance and, as he recalls, unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Hear Waller's Account of the Police Stop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>'I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I knew I shouldn’t have been driving with a suspended license, but I have to work,” said Waller, who said he became current on his child support payments before the incident. “This was just a real big inconvenience to have that vehicle towed like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller borrowed money from his mother, who recently retired, to get his driver’s license reinstated after paying $2,612 in late fines to the court. Owners who pay the entirety of their fines may regain their licenses and, in turn, get their cars out of the impound lot before 30 days, avoiding potentially hundreds of dollars in storage fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller’s car, a 2007 Cadillac, was in the tow lot for just 16 days. Still, he paid $1,280 in towing and storage fees to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is making the profit out of low-income people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Towing and storage prices are a statewide patchwork\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park fees are comparable to those of other Bay Area cities but not to other areas of California. If Waller had been cited in Los Angeles he would have paid in towing and storage fees $790 for the same period of time — about 40 percent less than what he paid after being towed in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says that rates are “generally established by an agreement between the law enforcement agency requesting the tow and the towing company.” That results in a patchy map of towing and vehicle storage fees, as rates vary dramatically throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are benefiting the tow yards with the statute that requires a 30-day impound, why isn’t the state regulating the exorbitant rates? Why aren’t they uniform throughout the state?” asked Cynthia Anderson-Barker, a civil rights lawyer who started a legal clinic to halt police impounds of vehicles owned by immigrant drivers in the city of Maywood, near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, the initial tow fee ranges from $200 to $240, while daily storage costs go from $60 to $80 depending on the company that does the tow, said Sgt. Matthew Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, drivers with a suspended license citation, considered a misdemeanor that generally results in a “cite and release” arrest, must pay an additional $300 vehicle release fee to Menlo Park. That city fee also varies greatly throughout California. San Diego’s fee is $54, while Sacramento’s is $180, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega said that Menlo Park’s towing and storage prices are similar to the local California Highway Patrol fees. These range from $200 to $235 for the towing service, and $70 to $75 for daily storage, according to records from the Redwood City CHP Area Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP does not keep a readily available list of the fees charged by the towing companies it employs throughout the state, but local commanders in each of the 103 offices make sure the fees are “reasonable for the area,” said Officer Daniel Hill from the California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pick the average of those rates, and the outliers are cast off,” Hill said. The CHP does not charge an administrative fee to release impounded vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park contracts with 12 towing companies that pay the city $100 for each 30-day tow the police orders. To sell a vehicle, these companies must first pay for a lien sale process fee of $70 or more, and auction sale costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are breaking even, maybe losing a little with the 30-day holds,” said Jamie from Redwood Auto, who declined to give his last name. “More than 50 percent of those cars go to the junkyard. These cars are in such bad shape … that’s usually what gets them pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junkyard pays about $200 per car, said Jamie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the vehicles that will be auctioned off or sold to a junkyard is a minivan owned by a mother of five who earns about $1,600 a month working at a dry cleaners. Maria, who asked that her last name not be used because of her immigration status, paid $2,000 for her 2013 Ford Windstar two years ago. Now, she can’t afford to get it back from the impound lot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, while Maria drove with her 11-year old son near their home in Belle Haven, Menlo Park police pulled her over for an expired vehicle registration and then cited her for driving with a suspended license, Maria said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I made a mistake,” said Maria in Spanish. “But I don’t think it’s fair that they took my van away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has never held a California driver’s license, but her privilege to drive was still revoked if she hadn’t paid for previous traffic tickets, said Bertini. She could retrieve her vehicle from the tow yard if someone else who does have a valid California driver’s license acts as her agent, said Hill, the spokesman for the CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2015, Maria wouldn’t have been eligible for a California driver’s license. But now the state will issue licenses to unauthorized immigrants. Maria has been paying installments on her traffic fines for months. She still owes $350 but had hoped to pay the final amount so that she can get a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since her vehicle was towed and she owes more money, that may never happen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor and Legislature push for changes \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Legislature approved the governor's plan for traffic debt amnesty program. It will allow drivers to get their license reinstated if they sign up to pay half of the amount they owe in fines for minor traffic infractions they received before 2013. The program could take effect as soon as Oct. 1, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense from a fiscal standpoint and a public policy standpoint,” Palmer said. “It is an opportunity for individuals to get their licenses back and that may be the one thing that gets them to either a paying job or a better-paying job.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With citations and vehicle impounds tripling, driving with a suspended license is Menlo Park's top crime.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1438813489,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":97,"wordCount":4108},"headData":{"title":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License | KQED","description":"With citations and vehicle impounds tripling, driving with a suspended license is Menlo Park's top crime.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","datePublished":"2015-08-05T17:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2015-08-05T22:24:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10566848 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10566848","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license/","disqusTitle":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","source":"Peninsula Press","sourceUrl":"http://peninsulapress.com/2015/06/17/driving-suspended-license-top-crime-in-menlo-park-california/","customPermalink":"2015/06/17/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license/","path":"/news/10566848/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rene Macedo Nolasco, a night shift worker, was driving home late at night on May 2 from his job at the Tesla Motors plant in Fremont when he noticed flashing lights in his rearview mirror. Twenty minutes later, a Menlo Park police officer had cited him for driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor. His blue 2006 Audi, which he had purchased a few days before for $6,000, was towed to an impound lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco could have reclaimed his car in 30 days — if he'd had the money to cover the $60 to $80 daily tow yard storage charges, plus other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to get it out from the impound lot because it’s too much money,” said Macedo Nolasco, 27, a father of two. The minimum amount he would have had to pay is $2,300, more than a third of the Audi’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police citations and vehicle impounds for driving with a suspended license nearly tripled from 2008 to 2014, making this misdemeanor the top crime in the city, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of data from the Police Department. Many impounded cars are never recovered by owners, according to interviews with drivers and supervisors at towing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of citations and impounds occurred on the east side of the city, where most of the regional commuter traffic zooms through. But police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they are not targeting minorities. They attribute the steady rise in incidents to more policing aimed at responding to residents worried about safety, and point to a reduction in violent crime and traffic accidents last year as proof that the strategy is working. Drivers who have been cited say the rules and police attention make their lives harder and are unfairly resulting in stops and citations against Latinos and African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco’s troubles began over seven years ago, when he gambled on driving with an expired registration and lost. Then he got other traffic citations that he couldn’t afford to pay, so his license was suspended. He could have taken the bus to work, but the trip takes over an hour, so he gambled again and kept driving — until that stop in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he usually takes the bus and relies on his mom to pick him up at 4 a.m. when his shift ends. She recently loaned him her van so that he could make the 17-mile trip to work, praying that he wouldn’t be stopped and get her car towed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very stressful. It affects the whole family,” said his mother, Olga Nolasco, a house cleaner who just last year also saw her daughter Janet’s car get impounded because of a revoked license. “It’s not fair that they take their cars away. How are they going to get to work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the suspended license citations in Menlo Park, 71 percent resulted in police officers impounding the driver’s vehicle for the statutory 30-day period, according to police data from more than seven years, from 2008 to April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OUFeUBHeZdA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OUFeUBHeZdA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many drivers lose their cars permanently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impound costs in Menlo Park and in other Bay Area cities, such as San Francisco and San Jose, are significantly higher than in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, and sometimes add up to more than the car is worth, according to interviews and research into impound policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than half of the cars impounded for 30 days are picked up by owners and the numbers of owners retrieving their vehicles are significantly down from 2008, according to managers at three towing companies working with Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the cars that we tow for Menlo Park police get left and never get picked up,” said Jeff from Ed’s Cradle and Tow in Mountain View, who declined to give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towers statewide are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their cars after a 30-day impound, said Quinn Piening, chairman of the California Tow Truck Association Greater Bay Area Chapter. Piening believes drivers with serial suspended license citations in particular opt out of paying for impound costs and surrender their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go and buy another cheap vehicle and just drive it,” Piening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles left in the impound lots are sold by towing companies at auctions or to a junkyard. The lien sale proceeds go to cover the amount these companies charge for towing and daily storage. If the sale isn’t enough to cover that cost, the registered owners may lose their vehicle and still be on the hook for the rest of the tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towing companies have a tough time recovering any remaining debt after a lien sale, said Piening, and as a result, his company — Central Towing & Transport — and others he knows of are not profiting as much as they used to from these tows six years ago. Contributing to lower profits is a drop in the total number of tows ordered by police for other violations in the five cities his company works with, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tow companies are not getting rich in this business by any stretch of doing law enforcement work,” Piening said. “When we were towing 30-day impounds and the vehicles were valued at $5,000, that was one thing. But today we are towing vehicles that are valued under $1,000 and you can’t find people to buy them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others believe that state law on impounds benefits tow yards at the expense of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a good set of laws? Does it make sense from a public policy standpoint? Is it abused by people running tow yards?” asked Donald W. Cook, a Los Angeles-based attorney who is challenging the 30-day impound policy for unlicensed drivers in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa and other California cities. “The only answer is, of course, it’s abused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he is seeking a court order to make California release statewide records for vehicles impounded for 30 days, which are included in the Department of Justice Stolen Vehicle System database. Cook likens these types of impounds to “stealing people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 30-day impound statute is used to victimize the people who are most vulnerable to it. Basically the poor, a large segment of which are illegals,” added Cook, referring to undocumented drivers. “Many of them can’t afford it. They lose their vehicle and get nothing for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not track relevant towing data, such as the reason cars end up at lien sale auctions, the local agency that ordered the impound in the first place or the ethnicity of drivers — making it difficult to estimate the ethnic makeup of license suspensions. The City of Menlo Park declined to disclose how many of those vehicles were retrieved by owners or more information about the drivers, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But publicly available police logs from the last two months suggest these citations and impounds disproportionately impact minorities driving in Menlo Park: 68 percent were Latino, while 16 percent were African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race, but has everything to do with income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini said low-income drivers often come to the attention of officers because of mechanical failures of their cars, such as a broken tail light or excessive exhaust. They are also more likely than affluent drivers to have the DMV suspend their license, when they fail to appear in court or don’t pay traffic tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the original amounts of traffic tickets can double or triple because of various added-on fees, penalties and other mandatory payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ticket with a $100 base fine, such as failure to carry proof of auto insurance, costs $490 after fees and assessments. The price jumps to $730, plus other court fees, if the driver misses the initial deadline to pay the ticket, according to the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules by the Judicial Council of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many low-income drivers are unable to pay such fines. A recent survey by the Federal Reserve found that the majority of Americans with incomes of less than $40,000 a year would struggle to pay an emergency expense of $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-income and minority drivers hit the hardest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, over 4 million people have their driver’s licenses suspended because they can’t afford to pay a traffic ticket or miss a court deadline, according to a recent report by the East Bay Community Law Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and other groups. This number excludes license suspensions because of driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing cost of traffic tickets and the closing of court doors to drivers who miss a deadline are contributing to an explosion in the number of drivers whose licenses are revoked, according to the report. Some courts may have required full payment of a ticket before scheduling a court date, said Teresa Ruano, spokeswoman for the Judicial Council of California, which sets policy for the statewide court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address rising concerns about access to justice, the council issued a new rule in June that allows drivers to fight a ticket in court without first having to deposit the full amount of the ticket. This policy change, which took effect immediately, does not apply to drivers who already missed a court deadline to appear or pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.” The Legislature approved in June a traffic amnesty program proposed by Brown that would help some drivers regain their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is urgent as police citations and vehicle impounds for suspended licenses are hitting record numbers throughout the state, said Elisa Della-Piana, co-author of the report “Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California.” After the report was published in April, Della-Piana’s organization was contacted by people reporting more impounds in various cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happens disproportionately to people of color,” said Della-Piana, who is director of programs at the East Bay Community Law Center. She cited San Diego Police Department statistics showing that African-American and Latino drivers were stopped and searched at a higher rate than white drivers in 2014. “There’s clearly racial bias in traffic stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a driver’s license suspended and the potential loss of a vehicle because of an impound hurts the livelihood of individuals, forcing some families into welfare, Della-Piana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t keep a job because the job requires them to drive,” Della-Piana said. “We see person after person who has an active job offer that they can’t take because they don’t have a driver’s license just because they couldn’t afford to pay a traffic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, the sister of driver Rene Macedo Nolasco, missed her court date for an unpaid speeding ticket and had her license suspended. Last year, a Menlo Park police officer stopped her for failing to use a turn signal, and then cited her for driving while on a revoked license. He impounded her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I was breaking the law. But it was just driving home,” said Campos, an unemployed mother of two boys. “I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t on drugs. And to basically get my whole life turned around in one split second. … I mean, don’t make the law so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos and her husband, a construction worker, cobbled the thousands of dollars needed to retrieve their impounded car. But the couple can’t afford to pay additional fees to get her license reinstated, which she says ballooned to $2,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she can’t legally drive, her options for finding employment are limited to minimum-wage jobs at a Walgreens and Safeway that are walking distance from her Hayward home. That in turn, dampens her prospects for earning enough money to pay for her driver’s license fines, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely overwhelming,” said Campos, adding that she has struggled with depression after losing her license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alcohol-related accidents spur seizures and impound law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1995, police officers lacked the authority to seize and impound the vehicles of motorists driving with a suspended license. Public furor over alcohol-related accidents and deaths prompted the California Legislature to approve a bill that would change that. The ensuing Vehicle Code section 14602.6 authorizes officers to seize and impound for 30 days the vehicles of drivers whose licenses were revoked because of DUIs and other violations, including failure to appear in court and pay traffic fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But statewide and local figures show that the majority of suspensions and citations are not due to DUIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, less than a third of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to DUIs, according to the DMV. In Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, the Menlo Park police commander, recognizes that the rules for license suspensions and impounds have become “a vicious cycle” for drivers without the resources to pay fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, a former traffic officer, has seen firsthand the disproportionate impact citations can have on low-income drivers. His tickets came with a stern warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t ignore this. If you ignore this, bad things will happen because they’ll suspend your license, you’ll get a warrant, then you’ll be caught driving on a suspended license, then you’ll get arrested and then they’ll take your car,” Bertini recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini attributes the growing rise in incidents in Menlo Park to a renewed focus on public safety and traffic enforcement. After Facebook moved to the Belle Haven neighborhood on the east side of Menlo Park in 2011, the city held a series of meetings with Belle Haven residents concerned about gang shootings in the area and “people driving crazy,” Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2011 and 2013, all of Menlo Park’s 44 shootings — including three murders — were in Belle Haven or within a mile radius. But no violent gun incidents have occurred there or elsewhere in the city since January 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes are developing as Belle Haven, where most Latino and African-American residents live, is undergoing swift gentrification. As elsewhere in the region, housing costs continue to rise and low-income residents move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of drive-through traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park realized they had a serious problem with traffic accidents a few years back. The city ranked among the top 10 in the state for fatal and injury collisions when compared with cities of similar size in 2012, the most recent figures by the California Office of Traffic Safety show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the Menlo Park Police Department to reassign two officers to a previously defunct traffic unit in 2013, and to instruct patrol officers to do traffic enforcement with special focus on congested avenues on the east, as well as the less busy streets of Belle Haven, said Bertini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most of the 1,819 citations during the last seven years took place in this part of the city. Few occurred in the affluent neighborhoods on the west side of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the number of traffic collisions dropped 20 percent from the year before, Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we saturated that area with police officers, they are going to make more stops,” Bertini said. “That is due to the fact that residents have been fed up and they want their community to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willert Waller, who grew up in Belle Haven, has noticed the heightened police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like every other day coming home from work, I see somebody pulled over, no matter what time of the day,” said Waller, 48, adding that most of the people he sees police stop are Latino and African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 20, Waller was stopped because his registration tags had just expired. His license had been revoked years back because of an unpaid ticket for driving without insurance and, as he recalls, unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Hear Waller's Account of the Police Stop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>'I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I knew I shouldn’t have been driving with a suspended license, but I have to work,” said Waller, who said he became current on his child support payments before the incident. “This was just a real big inconvenience to have that vehicle towed like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller borrowed money from his mother, who recently retired, to get his driver’s license reinstated after paying $2,612 in late fines to the court. Owners who pay the entirety of their fines may regain their licenses and, in turn, get their cars out of the impound lot before 30 days, avoiding potentially hundreds of dollars in storage fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller’s car, a 2007 Cadillac, was in the tow lot for just 16 days. Still, he paid $1,280 in towing and storage fees to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is making the profit out of low-income people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Towing and storage prices are a statewide patchwork\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park fees are comparable to those of other Bay Area cities but not to other areas of California. If Waller had been cited in Los Angeles he would have paid in towing and storage fees $790 for the same period of time — about 40 percent less than what he paid after being towed in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says that rates are “generally established by an agreement between the law enforcement agency requesting the tow and the towing company.” That results in a patchy map of towing and vehicle storage fees, as rates vary dramatically throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are benefiting the tow yards with the statute that requires a 30-day impound, why isn’t the state regulating the exorbitant rates? Why aren’t they uniform throughout the state?” asked Cynthia Anderson-Barker, a civil rights lawyer who started a legal clinic to halt police impounds of vehicles owned by immigrant drivers in the city of Maywood, near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, the initial tow fee ranges from $200 to $240, while daily storage costs go from $60 to $80 depending on the company that does the tow, said Sgt. Matthew Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, drivers with a suspended license citation, considered a misdemeanor that generally results in a “cite and release” arrest, must pay an additional $300 vehicle release fee to Menlo Park. That city fee also varies greatly throughout California. San Diego’s fee is $54, while Sacramento’s is $180, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega said that Menlo Park’s towing and storage prices are similar to the local California Highway Patrol fees. These range from $200 to $235 for the towing service, and $70 to $75 for daily storage, according to records from the Redwood City CHP Area Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP does not keep a readily available list of the fees charged by the towing companies it employs throughout the state, but local commanders in each of the 103 offices make sure the fees are “reasonable for the area,” said Officer Daniel Hill from the California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pick the average of those rates, and the outliers are cast off,” Hill said. The CHP does not charge an administrative fee to release impounded vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park contracts with 12 towing companies that pay the city $100 for each 30-day tow the police orders. To sell a vehicle, these companies must first pay for a lien sale process fee of $70 or more, and auction sale costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are breaking even, maybe losing a little with the 30-day holds,” said Jamie from Redwood Auto, who declined to give his last name. “More than 50 percent of those cars go to the junkyard. These cars are in such bad shape … that’s usually what gets them pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junkyard pays about $200 per car, said Jamie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the vehicles that will be auctioned off or sold to a junkyard is a minivan owned by a mother of five who earns about $1,600 a month working at a dry cleaners. Maria, who asked that her last name not be used because of her immigration status, paid $2,000 for her 2013 Ford Windstar two years ago. Now, she can’t afford to get it back from the impound lot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, while Maria drove with her 11-year old son near their home in Belle Haven, Menlo Park police pulled her over for an expired vehicle registration and then cited her for driving with a suspended license, Maria said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I made a mistake,” said Maria in Spanish. “But I don’t think it’s fair that they took my van away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has never held a California driver’s license, but her privilege to drive was still revoked if she hadn’t paid for previous traffic tickets, said Bertini. She could retrieve her vehicle from the tow yard if someone else who does have a valid California driver’s license acts as her agent, said Hill, the spokesman for the CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2015, Maria wouldn’t have been eligible for a California driver’s license. But now the state will issue licenses to unauthorized immigrants. Maria has been paying installments on her traffic fines for months. She still owes $350 but had hoped to pay the final amount so that she can get a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since her vehicle was towed and she owes more money, that may never happen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor and Legislature push for changes \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Legislature approved the governor's plan for traffic debt amnesty program. It will allow drivers to get their license reinstated if they sign up to pay half of the amount they owe in fines for minor traffic infractions they received before 2013. The program could take effect as soon as Oct. 1, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense from a fiscal standpoint and a public policy standpoint,” Palmer said. “It is an opportunity for individuals to get their licenses back and that may be the one thing that gets them to either a paying job or a better-paying job.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10566848/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_17940","news_480","news_18173"],"affiliates":["news_5933"],"featImg":"news_10566863","label":"source_news_10566848"},"news_10559308":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10559308","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10559308","score":null,"sort":[1434055114000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"millions-of-californians-struggle-with-financial-burden-of-suspended-drivers-licenses","title":"Millions of Californians Struggle With Financial Burden of Suspended Driver’s Licenses","publishDate":1434055114,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Christina is one of the estimated 4 million California drivers struggling to manage the mounting financial burden of a suspended driver’s license, the result of costly driving fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many drivers are familiar with the process of getting a driving ticket, the subsequent legal process is not as clear -- especially when education level or language act as barriers. After statutory add-ons are calculated, a $100 ticket instantly becomes almost $500. Unable to pay this initial cost -- and with job or health concerns often getting in the way -- many drivers do not make it to court and have their license suspended. In this way, California’s system of fines and fees may disproportionately impact low-income drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong San Francisco resident, Christina’s mobility is greatly impaired due to a violent mugging that left her wearing a prosthetic leg for the rest of her life. Unable to walk farther than a few blocks, Christina’s license suspension meant an inability to go to the store for groceries, or to make the five separate doctor’s appointments she attended weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This mini-documentary -- “Out of Reach” -- chronicles Christina’s attempts to have her license reinstated after more than 13 years of suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=451&v=4PEpfHt_4oM]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina is not alone. According to a recent report released by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, many drivers face a choice between obeying the law and providing for themselves and their families. The state’s system of using license suspensions as a tool of debt-collection is ineffective, as the loss of employment that often results leaves drivers unable to pay their debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Meredith Desautels, advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/02/renewed-push-to-reform-law-on-drivers-license-suspensions\" target=\"_blank\">abolishing the state’s practice of suspending licenses to collect debt\u003c/a>. The effects can be so severe that the consequence may be disproportionate compared to the offense. Most of these suspensions are unrelated to driver safety, yet the impact on livelihoods can be devastating. Desautels explained that the system perpetuates statewide economic inequality at the cost of undermining the vitality of California communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a license,” Christina said, “I felt stripped. I felt ‘less than.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desautels added: “It becomes a mark that can affect you for the rest of your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to contest the ticket, drivers must first pay the full amount. Those who cannot afford the initial costs face a Catch-22. Drivers have a legal right to request consideration of their ability to pay, but to request this they too must first pay the full amount. With access to the courts hindered by one’s ability to pay, Desautels said, “We’re really making justice contingent on having money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions regarding the appropriateness of using driver’s license suspensions as a tool of debt collection are being raised, and some legislators are taking note. SB 405, a bill proposed by California State Senator Robert Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), would provide relief to low-income drivers with suspensions resulting from nonviolent offenses by allowing them to reinstate their license for a fifth of what they owe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, there are some small signs of relief. In January, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights debuted a very narrow path of relief, allowing a person to release the hold on their driver’s license, developed in collaboration with the San Francisco Superior Court. Appellants must meet extremely stringent conditions in order to be considered. First, they must agree to pay the total amount that they owe, which can run as high as tens of thousands of dollars. They must also secure in writing a statement from an employer promising them a job if their license is reinstated. Very few jobs can be held for the weeks necessary for the petition to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t address the full range of the problems we’re seeing,” Desautels said, “but provides one limited path of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 10 people have benefited from this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of perpetuating cycles of poverty, Desautels believes California’s traffic court system needs to be “more based in what people’s lives are really like -- recognizing that people make mistakes and want to be responsible for them but also have all these competing needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Christina’s last name is withheld from this story at the request of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"According to a report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, many drivers face a choice between obeying the law and providing for themselves and their families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1434132843,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":785},"headData":{"title":"Millions of Californians Struggle With Financial Burden of Suspended Driver’s Licenses | KQED","description":"According to a report by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, many drivers face a choice between obeying the law and providing for themselves and their families.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Millions of Californians Struggle With Financial Burden of Suspended Driver’s Licenses","datePublished":"2015-06-11T20:38:34.000Z","dateModified":"2015-06-12T18:14:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10559308 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10559308","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/11/millions-of-californians-struggle-with-financial-burden-of-suspended-drivers-licenses/","disqusTitle":"Millions of Californians Struggle With Financial Burden of Suspended Driver’s Licenses","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Nick Salazar\u003c/strong> \u003cbr/> Peninsula Press","path":"/news/10559308/millions-of-californians-struggle-with-financial-burden-of-suspended-drivers-licenses","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Christina is one of the estimated 4 million California drivers struggling to manage the mounting financial burden of a suspended driver’s license, the result of costly driving fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many drivers are familiar with the process of getting a driving ticket, the subsequent legal process is not as clear -- especially when education level or language act as barriers. After statutory add-ons are calculated, a $100 ticket instantly becomes almost $500. Unable to pay this initial cost -- and with job or health concerns often getting in the way -- many drivers do not make it to court and have their license suspended. In this way, California’s system of fines and fees may disproportionately impact low-income drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lifelong San Francisco resident, Christina’s mobility is greatly impaired due to a violent mugging that left her wearing a prosthetic leg for the rest of her life. Unable to walk farther than a few blocks, Christina’s license suspension meant an inability to go to the store for groceries, or to make the five separate doctor’s appointments she attended weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This mini-documentary -- “Out of Reach” -- chronicles Christina’s attempts to have her license reinstated after more than 13 years of suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4PEpfHt_4oM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4PEpfHt_4oM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina is not alone. According to a recent report released by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, many drivers face a choice between obeying the law and providing for themselves and their families. The state’s system of using license suspensions as a tool of debt-collection is ineffective, as the loss of employment that often results leaves drivers unable to pay their debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Meredith Desautels, advocates for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/02/renewed-push-to-reform-law-on-drivers-license-suspensions\" target=\"_blank\">abolishing the state’s practice of suspending licenses to collect debt\u003c/a>. The effects can be so severe that the consequence may be disproportionate compared to the offense. Most of these suspensions are unrelated to driver safety, yet the impact on livelihoods can be devastating. Desautels explained that the system perpetuates statewide economic inequality at the cost of undermining the vitality of California communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a license,” Christina said, “I felt stripped. I felt ‘less than.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desautels added: “It becomes a mark that can affect you for the rest of your life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to contest the ticket, drivers must first pay the full amount. Those who cannot afford the initial costs face a Catch-22. Drivers have a legal right to request consideration of their ability to pay, but to request this they too must first pay the full amount. With access to the courts hindered by one’s ability to pay, Desautels said, “We’re really making justice contingent on having money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions regarding the appropriateness of using driver’s license suspensions as a tool of debt collection are being raised, and some legislators are taking note. SB 405, a bill proposed by California State Senator Robert Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), would provide relief to low-income drivers with suspensions resulting from nonviolent offenses by allowing them to reinstate their license for a fifth of what they owe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, there are some small signs of relief. In January, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights debuted a very narrow path of relief, allowing a person to release the hold on their driver’s license, developed in collaboration with the San Francisco Superior Court. Appellants must meet extremely stringent conditions in order to be considered. First, they must agree to pay the total amount that they owe, which can run as high as tens of thousands of dollars. They must also secure in writing a statement from an employer promising them a job if their license is reinstated. Very few jobs can be held for the weeks necessary for the petition to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t address the full range of the problems we’re seeing,” Desautels said, “but provides one limited path of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, about 10 people have benefited from this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of perpetuating cycles of poverty, Desautels believes California’s traffic court system needs to be “more based in what people’s lives are really like -- recognizing that people make mistakes and want to be responsible for them but also have all these competing needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Christina’s last name is withheld from this story at the request of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10559308/millions-of-californians-struggle-with-financial-burden-of-suspended-drivers-licenses","authors":["byline_news_10559308"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17825","news_17940"],"affiliates":["news_5933"],"featImg":"news_10559361","label":"news_6944"},"news_10474179":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10474179","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10474179","score":null,"sort":[1427986811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"renewed-push-to-reform-law-on-drivers-license-suspensions","title":"Renewed Push to Reform Law on Driver's License Suspensions","publishDate":1427986811,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A staggering bit of information contained in the U.S. Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\">investigation into the Ferguson Police Department\u003c/a> has generated quite a stir in recent weeks. The report found that in Ferguson, Missouri, a small city with a population of just 21,000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/the-shocking-finding-from-the-doj-ferguson_b_6858388.html\">more than 16,000 people had outstanding arrest warrants\u003c/a> issued by the court as of December 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those warrants had nothing to do with criminal behavior. Instead, \"the primary role of warrants is not to protect public safety but rather to facilitate fine collection … The warrants issued by the court are overwhelmingly issued in non-criminal traffic cases that would not themselves result in a penalty of imprisonment,\" the DOJ report found. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2014, municipal warrants in Ferguson could most often be traced to offenses such as driving with a suspended license, failure to register a vehicle or other violations directly linked to unavoidable motorist expenses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the targeted drivers missed a payment or failed to appear in court after getting a ticket, those offenses snowballed into warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information was presented in the context of demonstrating a pattern of racial bias in policing in the city where unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown was killed in a police encounter last August. But there's a key point here that extends well beyond the boundaries of Ferguson: Court fees relating to traffic violations can make a serious mess of an individual's life if they simply don't have the money to pay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last Week Tonight\" host John Oliver picked up on the issue of warrants being issued over traffic tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewrap.com/john-oliver-explains-out-how-traffic-tickets-can-ruin-peoples-lives-video/\">and ran with it\u003c/a> in a segment that aired a couple weeks ago. It also came up during the March 31 San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting, when Supervisor John Avalos called for a hearing to examine how driver's license suspensions can disproportionately impact low-income residents in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are the systems that we have in place in our different departments and in the justice system that actually lead to licenses being suspended?\" Avalos asked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, he's called on city departments to provide data relating to driver's license suspensions as a first step toward finding ways to lessen unnecessary financial burdens at the local level. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A person has to pay a lot of money to get that driver's license back,\" Avalos pointed out. \"If you're low-income and don't have a job, that presents a real barrier to making positive changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, civil rights advocates in California have been working on changing state law around driver's license suspensions for years, characterizing it as a racial and economic justice issue that effectively bars low-income drivers from escaping poverty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Desautels, a racial-justice staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said her organization has partnered with the East Bay Community Law Center and the Western Center on Law and Poverty in recent years to push for state-level reform on this issue, but their efforts have been unsuccessful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue was really apparent in 2011 and has only increased in severity,\" Desautels said. Despite widespread support in policy committees, Desautels said, \"The holdup is in the fiscal committees.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, in coordination with the Lawyers Committee and several other organizations, Sen. Robert M. Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) introduced \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_405_bill_20150225_introduced.html\">SB 405\u003c/a>, placeholder legislation for another bid at legislative reform to reduce the number drivers' license suspensions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the text of that bill, over the course of five years there were suspensions of \"more than 2.7 million driver's licenses for drivers' failure to appear in court or failure to make payments ordered by a court,\" reasons that have nothing to do with public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Desautels, who is working with a host of advocacy organizations to issue a report on this, said more recent DMV data suggests that the real figure is much higher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point she said data has shown that from 2008 to 2013, \"There have been over 500,000 suspensions each year,\" but there were only around 10,000 license reinstatements in each of those years, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lawyers Committee started advocacy work on this issue several years ago after encountering so many clients who faced major barriers to employment and other problems stemming from unpaid traffic violations that had spiraled into driver's license suspensions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've multiple clients tell me, 'if only I could be arrested and get my fines cleared, I'd do it,'\" Desautels said. \"It's like a sentence to poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers Committee Legal Director Oren Sellstrom outlined the problem \u003ca href=\"http://www.lccr.com/newsroom/traffic-court-judicial-dead-end-californias-working-poor/\">in an op-ed that ran last year in the Daily Journal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consider the case of 'Maria A.,' a single mother in San Francisco who until recently had been supporting her family by working in construction, a job that requires a driver’s license. When she received three traffic tickets, she was unable to pay them immediately since she was using her limited income to feed and clothe her two children. As a result, the San Francisco traffic court ordered her driver’s license suspended and placed her in the ultimate Catch-22: She must pay off her entire debt before the court will reinstate her license. But without her license, her employer won’t hire her back, so she has no way of paying off her debt. Nor will the court allow her to perform community service, since her debt has been sent to collections. In fact, she cannot even go before a judge to request any kind of common-sense solution to this vicious cycle; unless she posts bail for the full amount she owes, the court will not even schedule her matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, warrants are in fact issued for uncollected fines and failure to appear stemming from traffic infractions, Desautels said, but most often don't trigger arrests unless the fines are above $7,500. However, the larger issue of driver's license suspensions can send low-income motorists into a vicious cycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the Lawyers Committee and partnering organizations will release a full report on California traffic courts and license suspensions. At the same time, according to Hertzberg's communications director, Ray Sotero, the senator will announce a renewed push for reform and hopes for a different outcome now that there is greater awareness of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than 2.7 million drivers' licenses were suspended over five years in CA for reasons that have nothing to do with public safety.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1427991071,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1086},"headData":{"title":"Renewed Push to Reform Law on Driver's License Suspensions | KQED","description":"More than 2.7 million drivers' licenses were suspended over five years in CA for reasons that have nothing to do with public safety.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Renewed Push to Reform Law on Driver's License Suspensions","datePublished":"2015-04-02T15:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2015-04-02T16:11:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10474179 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10474179","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/02/renewed-push-to-reform-law-on-drivers-license-suspensions/","disqusTitle":"Renewed Push to Reform Law on Driver's License Suspensions","path":"/news/10474179/renewed-push-to-reform-law-on-drivers-license-suspensions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A staggering bit of information contained in the U.S. Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\">investigation into the Ferguson Police Department\u003c/a> has generated quite a stir in recent weeks. The report found that in Ferguson, Missouri, a small city with a population of just 21,000, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/the-shocking-finding-from-the-doj-ferguson_b_6858388.html\">more than 16,000 people had outstanding arrest warrants\u003c/a> issued by the court as of December 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those warrants had nothing to do with criminal behavior. Instead, \"the primary role of warrants is not to protect public safety but rather to facilitate fine collection … The warrants issued by the court are overwhelmingly issued in non-criminal traffic cases that would not themselves result in a penalty of imprisonment,\" the DOJ report found. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2014, municipal warrants in Ferguson could most often be traced to offenses such as driving with a suspended license, failure to register a vehicle or other violations directly linked to unavoidable motorist expenses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the targeted drivers missed a payment or failed to appear in court after getting a ticket, those offenses snowballed into warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The information was presented in the context of demonstrating a pattern of racial bias in policing in the city where unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown was killed in a police encounter last August. But there's a key point here that extends well beyond the boundaries of Ferguson: Court fees relating to traffic violations can make a serious mess of an individual's life if they simply don't have the money to pay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last Week Tonight\" host John Oliver picked up on the issue of warrants being issued over traffic tickets \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewrap.com/john-oliver-explains-out-how-traffic-tickets-can-ruin-peoples-lives-video/\">and ran with it\u003c/a> in a segment that aired a couple weeks ago. It also came up during the March 31 San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting, when Supervisor John Avalos called for a hearing to examine how driver's license suspensions can disproportionately impact low-income residents in San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are the systems that we have in place in our different departments and in the justice system that actually lead to licenses being suspended?\" Avalos asked. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, he's called on city departments to provide data relating to driver's license suspensions as a first step toward finding ways to lessen unnecessary financial burdens at the local level. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A person has to pay a lot of money to get that driver's license back,\" Avalos pointed out. \"If you're low-income and don't have a job, that presents a real barrier to making positive changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, civil rights advocates in California have been working on changing state law around driver's license suspensions for years, characterizing it as a racial and economic justice issue that effectively bars low-income drivers from escaping poverty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meredith Desautels, a racial-justice staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, said her organization has partnered with the East Bay Community Law Center and the Western Center on Law and Poverty in recent years to push for state-level reform on this issue, but their efforts have been unsuccessful. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The issue was really apparent in 2011 and has only increased in severity,\" Desautels said. Despite widespread support in policy committees, Desautels said, \"The holdup is in the fiscal committees.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, in coordination with the Lawyers Committee and several other organizations, Sen. Robert M. Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys) introduced \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_405_bill_20150225_introduced.html\">SB 405\u003c/a>, placeholder legislation for another bid at legislative reform to reduce the number drivers' license suspensions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the text of that bill, over the course of five years there were suspensions of \"more than 2.7 million driver's licenses for drivers' failure to appear in court or failure to make payments ordered by a court,\" reasons that have nothing to do with public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Desautels, who is working with a host of advocacy organizations to issue a report on this, said more recent DMV data suggests that the real figure is much higher. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point she said data has shown that from 2008 to 2013, \"There have been over 500,000 suspensions each year,\" but there were only around 10,000 license reinstatements in each of those years, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lawyers Committee started advocacy work on this issue several years ago after encountering so many clients who faced major barriers to employment and other problems stemming from unpaid traffic violations that had spiraled into driver's license suspensions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've multiple clients tell me, 'if only I could be arrested and get my fines cleared, I'd do it,'\" Desautels said. \"It's like a sentence to poverty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers Committee Legal Director Oren Sellstrom outlined the problem \u003ca href=\"http://www.lccr.com/newsroom/traffic-court-judicial-dead-end-californias-working-poor/\">in an op-ed that ran last year in the Daily Journal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Consider the case of 'Maria A.,' a single mother in San Francisco who until recently had been supporting her family by working in construction, a job that requires a driver’s license. When she received three traffic tickets, she was unable to pay them immediately since she was using her limited income to feed and clothe her two children. As a result, the San Francisco traffic court ordered her driver’s license suspended and placed her in the ultimate Catch-22: She must pay off her entire debt before the court will reinstate her license. But without her license, her employer won’t hire her back, so she has no way of paying off her debt. Nor will the court allow her to perform community service, since her debt has been sent to collections. In fact, she cannot even go before a judge to request any kind of common-sense solution to this vicious cycle; unless she posts bail for the full amount she owes, the court will not even schedule her matter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, warrants are in fact issued for uncollected fines and failure to appear stemming from traffic infractions, Desautels said, but most often don't trigger arrests unless the fines are above $7,500. However, the larger issue of driver's license suspensions can send low-income motorists into a vicious cycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week, the Lawyers Committee and partnering organizations will release a full report on California traffic courts and license suspensions. 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