NEW YORK — As subway crime continues to soar, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is urging judges and district attorneys to help ban “certain criminals” from the transit system, the New York Daily News has learned.
MTA Chair Janno Lieber on Monday called on authorities to enforce an existing ban on people convicted of sex crimes on the system or of assaulting transit employees — which hasn’t been used to date — and to expand the law down the road.
As of 2020, New York state judges have the power to bar people from public transit for up to three years if they are convicted of illegal sexual conduct while using the system.
