Government
Mar. 29, 2016
Traffic courts don't have a license to discriminate
The Judicial Council should take a strong stance to end an unfair court practice that harms the indigent and disproportionately affects communities of color: the use of driver's license suspensions as a tool to collect court-ordered fines and fees. By Christine P. Sun
Christine P. Sun
Senior Vice President of Legal
States United Democracy Center
New York Univ SOL; New York NY
Last year, in a meeting that Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye called "historic," the Judicial Council unanimously adopted a rule to stop the unconstitutional practice of barring people from contesting their traffic citations until they had paid for the citation in full. It was a good first step to address the myriad ways that traffic courts deprive drivers, especially those who are low-income, of their fundamental rights to du...
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