Skip to content
Council Discourse

NYC Council meetings, chaptered and linked by time.

Created by Uzair Qadir

Inspired by Vikram Oberoi's City Meetings

Q&A

Abreu asks about definition of worst offenders

New York City Council · Aug 11, 2026 · starts 0:49:49 · 1 min 3 sec

Abreu asks how DOF defines worst offenders, how many fall into that category, and the total debt associated with them. Lee explains that idling violations, judgments in criminal action, and those with sheriffs or marshals are excluded from amnesty, and DOF can explore additional exclusion categories.

Shaun Abreu

The announcement stated that DOF intends to prioritize collection of debt from the city's worst offenders.

Shaun Abreu

How does DOF define worst offenders?

Shaun Abreu

How many respondents fall into that category?

Shaun Abreu

And what is the total outstanding ECB judgment debt associated with those respondents?

Richard Lee

So worst offenders, we're using a little generally, but the idling violations will not be part of the amnesty program.

Richard Lee

I indicated earlier some judgments that are going through, let's say, criminal action or the sheriffs or marshals will not be eligible.

Richard Lee

So there are a number of violations that will not be eligible for the ECB amnesty program.

Shaun Abreu

Are you contemplating additional types of respondents that should not be eligible?

Shaun Abreu

At the moment?

Richard Lee

We can look at additional and see if there are additional categories that we can include or exclude, I guess, from the amnesty program.

Richard Lee

We're happy to have those conversations.

Shaun Abreu

And it's fair to say those offenders will not be eligible to participate in the amnesty program, correct?

Shaun Abreu

All right.