Civil rights group: NYPD agrees not to store names of everyone stopped by officers
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Civil rights lawyers say New York City has agreed to end the practice of storing the names and addresses of people whose cases are dismissed after a police stop.
The New York Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday that the agreement was reached as part of a settlement of a lawsuit in state court in Manhattan.
The city's law office and the NYPD did not immediately comment.
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The NYCLU says the department will no longer store the names of people who are stopped, arrested or issued a summons when those cases are dismissed or resolved with a fine for a noncriminal violation.
A lawsuit was brought in May 2010 on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people whose personal information was kept in a stop-and-frisk database.