States sue to block federal access to commercial driver data amid immigration concerns

New York and New Jersey joined a 21-state coalition in a federal lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from obtaining personal information on 17 million commercial drivers, arguing the data could be used for immigration enforcement and raise privacy concerns; the administration has threatened highway-fund withholding and mandatory data turnover, while New York’s CDL data system is queried about 30,000 times daily and the database is owned by the states and run by the AAMVA; the suit seeks to block sharing of the records during litigation and challenge the data transfer.