Virginia driver’s license suspensions ‘trap’ poor people in a ‘nightmarish spiral,’ lawsuit says
“In 2016, the Legal Aid Justice Center, which represents low-income Virginians, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Western Virginia, saying that more than 940,000 people in the state had their licenses suspended for nonpayment of fees and fines. The practice of suspending licenses for traffic debt was widely criticized after the Justice Department found law enforcement acting as collection agents in Ferguson, Mo., in 2015.”