Officials with Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s administration on Wednesday raised concerns about a City Council bill requiring them to come up with an automatic enrollment process for the city’s reduced fair program — Fair Fares — citing privacy considerations.
Rebecca Chew, chief program officer for the city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA), the city agency that runs the program, testified to council members during a May 6 hearing that the agency’s legal obligations to safeguard private information could pose challenges to implementing the legislation as written.
