File #: Int 0787-2026    Version: * Name: Reporting on targeted traffic enforcement operations by the police department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 3/26/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on targeted traffic enforcement operations by the police department
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Harvey D. Epstein, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require that require that beginning on July 1, 2026 and quarterly thereafter, NYPD has to disclose where it has engaged in targeted traffic enforcement within the previous quarter, i.e. “any determination made by the department to allocate resources, or issue specific directives, regarding traffic enforcement in specific geographic locations,” how they made that determination, the types of summonses issued, specific instances of enforcement directed at electric scooters or e-bicycles, and a comparison of the period in which targeted traffic enforcement occurred as compared to the same period in the most recent year in which no targeted traffic enforcement occurred.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 787, 2. Int. No. 787, 3. March 26, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 787

 

By Council Members Brooks-Powers, Epstein and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on targeted traffic enforcement operations by the police department

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 14-153 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows:

e. No later than July 1, 2026, and quarterly thereafter, the department shall provide to the speaker of the council and post on the department's website a report regarding, for the previous quarter: (1) any instances where the department has engaged in targeted traffic enforcement, which for purposes of this subdivision is defined as any determination made by the commissioner to allocate resources, or issue specific directives, regarding traffic enforcement in specific geographic locations; (2) an explanation of how any such determination to conduct targeted traffic enforcement was made; (3) the number of moving violation summonses issued, disaggregated by type of summons; (4) all instances of targeted traffic enforcement directed at operators of electric scooters or bicycles with electric assist, as such terms are defined in section 19-176.2; and (5) a comparison of the period in which targeted traffic enforcement occurred as compared to the same period in the most recent year in which no targeted traffic enforcement occurred.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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