JALSA in The Bay State Banner on the Work and Family Mobility Act

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Excerpt from New law allows all immigrants to drive in Mass.

Beginning in August 2019, Julia Schlozman, an attorney with the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, helped to write and pass the legislation.

“Strong privacy protections” in the bill were a priority so that individuals’ information would not be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Schlozman said.

Additionally, she said she worked with legislators to ensure that the description of the specific documents that individuals would need to present at the Registry to get their license would be both thoroughly verifiable by law enforcement and accessible to those applying.

Schlozman said the new law establishes these new driver’s licenses as indistinguishable from any other Massachusetts driver’s license, unlike the practice in some other states.

The licenses being identical, she said, can prevent a traffic stop from escalating into police calling federal immigration agents. “This way a broken tail light can stay a broken taillight,” she said.