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Ada<\/span>m Merritt caught a ride home from work a<\/span>nd pulled up to find his house full of cops. Someone had tried to break into the house and shot Merritt\u2019s roommate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The police told Merritt that his roommate had just left in an ambulance. Merritt wanted to meet him at the hospital, but he couldn\u2019t. His ride already left and his license was suspended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey wouldn’t let me in my house, and I didn\u2019t have money for an Uber. I was just cold standing outside with nowhere to go,\u201d Merritt said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over a year later, his roommate has made a full recovery. But Merritt still looks back on how frustrating it was to be stuck in front of his house that day. \u201cThat was probably the peak point of how not having a license was just awful,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merritt\u2019s license was suspended because he never paid a speeding ticket from 2014. He was 19 years old at the time and he got two tickets in the span of a couple months. After going to court once, he thought he had resolved both charges. Three years later, he was pulled over for driving without a seatbelt and found out that he still had an outstanding charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, roug<\/span>hly one in five adults in Durham County had a suspended or revoked driver\u2019s license in 2018. Almost 80 percent were people of color.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now Merritt is one of nearly 40,000 people eligible to get their licenses back. The Durham Expunction and Restoration Program was launched a year ago by the city\u2019s Innovation Team, which collaborates with academia, community organizations, and the private sector to research and address social issues in Durham. The \u201cR\u201d of DEAR \u2014 license restoration \u2014 began under former District Attorney Roger Echols and continued after Satana Deberry unseated him in the 2018 election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each charge or conviction revisited must be at least two years old and cannot include high-risk traffic charges, such as DWI or speeding in a school zone. The average case is more than 16 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we owe Roger Echols a lot for initiating this, but DA Deberry has been an amazing champion,\u201d said Ryan Smith, project manager of the Durham Innovation Team. \u201cIf anything, DA Deberry has leaned more into it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Deberry explained that not having a license in a place like Durham is a big deal, especially because the city lacks a reliable public transportation system. \u201cIf you can\u2019t drive, you can\u2019t go to work, you can\u2019t take your kids to school,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a Durham driver gets a traffic ticket, they re<\/span>ceive a court date where they have the opportunity to dispute or ask to reduce their charge. But the fee for appearing in traffic court \u2014 not including the traffic fine itself \u2014 is up to $188.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happens when poor people get tickets they cannot pay? You either don\u2019t show up because you can\u2019t afford it, or you show up and you get hit with the fines and fees and you don\u2019t pay it,\u201d Deberry said. Either option would result in a suspended license.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the program started last December, Deberry has been celebrating what she calls the \u201cYear of Jubilee,\u201d meaning a time of forgiveness. In a speech she gave at Duke Law School, she said that DEAR is the most successful initiative that she has ever been a part of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the help of a local nonprofit called Code the Dream, DEAR created a website to let people know whether they have benefitted from the mass relief program. Anyone can type in their name and birthday to see if their traffic charges have been dropped or their fines and fees have been forgiven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A flyer for the driver’s license restoration program hangs outside of the DEAR office in the Durham courthouse. Photo by Erin Williams | The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smith, project manager of the Durham Innovation Team, said that his ultimate goal is to expand the program to other counties, especially because people often rack up traffic violations in multiple jurisdictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The program is viewed as a\u00a0 success not just within North Carolina but throughout the country. The NC Bar Foundation awarded DEAR the Pro Bono Project o<\/span>f the Year in 2019. What Works Cities \u2014 a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative \u2014 also announced in November that it will partner with the Durham Innovation Team to help other cities develop similar programs and reform efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

But despite the accolades, DEAR doesn\u2019t have data on how many people <\/span>actually<\/span><\/i> have gotten their licenses back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Deberry, almost no one shows up to the mass relief hearings. People only know they have had their suspensions lifted through visiting the website or the DEAR office. But Smith said only 1,600 people have searched and found their names on the websi<\/span>te so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deberry attributed the disconnect to a publicity issue. \u201cIf I don\u2019t read the Herald Sun, the News and Observer, or the Independent, if that\u2019s not the kind of stuff that shows up in my social media feed, how would I know?\u201d she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Merritt also didn\u2019t know that his costs had been dropped. He had no idea the license restoration program even existed until he was directed to the DEAR offi<\/span>ce by the judge in his most recent traffic court hearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Merritt\u2019s drivers license suspension was lifted Oct. 24. \u201c[DEAR] helped me a lot\u2026 I just had a baby a couple months ago, and they probably saved me around $800, almost $900,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But Merritt still has yet to get his license back.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe DMV is another beast,\u201d said Laura Holland, a DEAR attorney. There is a $65 license restoration fee and another $50 fee if the driver did not mail in their physical license before it was suspended. She said that oftentimes she will help people get all the way to the finish line, and then they\u2019ll say, \u201cWell, I can\u2019t afford to pay that $115.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith calls this the last mile problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another barrier is that the DMV updates its records manually, so there is often a significant delay between when the suspension is dropped and when someone can pay to reclaim their license. \u201cThey tell me 48 hours, and I\u2019m like, that\u2019s malarkey. Complete malarkey,\u201d Holland said. \u201cWe think it is more like eight months, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Merritt went to the DMV last week because he has an interview coming up for a job that requires him to have a license. He said he wants to get a better job so he can support his newborn son. But after waiting in line for several hours, prepared to pay the final fee, they told him his\u00a0<\/span>name was not in the system and he would have to come back another time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the DEAR program has helped lift thousands of Durham residents\u2019 license suspensions, the city can\u2019t track the number of people who have successfully gotten their licenses back. According to Holland, they plan to request that data from the DMV at the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose same people who we know couldn\u2019t pay the fines and fees also can\u2019t pay $115 to get their license back, or any of the myriad other administrative hoops that the DMV has created,\u201d Deberry said. \u201cBut we wouldn\u2019t have known that if we hadn\u2019t done this. This was a start, and now we\u2019ve got to figure out the next step.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In photo at top, DEAR attorney Laura Holland works on driver’s license restoration cases. Photo by Erin Williams | The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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