New York City — The city will no longer keep any documents filed by applicants for municipal IDs.
The mayor's office and the City Council announced Wednesday personal documents submitted to get IDNYCs will not be retained as of January.
The announcement comes after the city was sued by two Republican Assembly members to retain data, which Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to destroy rather than turn over to the federal government in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
It was an effort to protect undocumented immigrants.
De Blasio also said Wednesday he would consider using a clause in the
program to delete the already submitted data before the end of the year.
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Source: DNAinfo/New York (via The Empire Report)
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