File #: Int 0780-2026    Version: * Name: Requiring the police department to publish daily maps depicting collisions involving department vehicles and locations where department vehicles exceeded the speed limit.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 3/10/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to publish daily maps depicting collisions involving department vehicles and locations where department vehicles exceeded the speed limit
Sponsors: Yusef Salaam
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to collect the speed at which each NYPD vehicle travels whenever it is in motion. NYPD, in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, would then be required to compare the speed of each NYPD vehicle to the speed limit along each portion of the vehicle’s route. Locations where NYPD vehicles exceeded the speed limit would be illustrated on a map, along with locations where a moving NYPD vehicle is involved in a collision. NYPD would be required to publish these maps daily on its website showing speeding and collisions.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 780, 2. Int. No. 780, 3. March 10, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 780

 

By Council Member Salaam

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to publish daily maps depicting collisions involving department vehicles and locations where department vehicles exceeded the speed limit

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-199.4 to read as follows:

§ 14-199.4 Analysis of department driving patterns. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Highway. The term “highway” means an arterial highway as designated in the New York city zoning resolution.

Street segment. The term “street segment” means each segment of a street bounded by 1 or more intersections or end points, or each one-fifth mile segment of a highway.

b. Report. No later than June 1, 2026, and daily thereafter, the commissioner, in collaboration with the department of information technology and telecommunications, shall:

1. Any time a department vehicle is in motion, collect the average speed at which the department vehicle travels over each street segment of such vehicle’s route;

2. Compare the speeds collected pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision with the speed limit of each corresponding street segment along a department vehicle’s route;

3. Using the results of the comparison required by paragraph 2 of this subdivision, map on the corresponding street segment, and provide in a machine-readable format, the number of the daily, monthly, and annual instances in which any department vehicle exceeded each street segment’s speed limit; and

4. Illustrate on a map, and provide in a machine-readable format, the date, time, and location, including the latitude and longitude, of any collision involving a department vehicle in motion, the speed at which the department vehicle was traveling at the time of the collision, whether the department vehicle collided with an object or a pedestrian, whether a pedestrian was injured as a result of the collision, whether a pedestrian died as a result of the collision, the age of any pedestrian struck as a result of the collision, and the type of object struck in the collision.

c. Publication. No later than June 1, 2026, and daily thereafter, the commissioner shall publish and maintain on the department’s website the maps created pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 4 of subdivision b of this section.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect immediately.

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