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The bill improves transit safety, response, multilingual access, and public transparency for harassment incidents—especially for urban riders and non-English speakers—but does so at the cost of collecting sensitive demographic data that raises privacy, data-aggregation, stigma, and local cost concerns.
Urban public-transit riders will have more documented information about street harassment incidents, enabling agencies to target safety improvements and allocate resources to higher-risk locations/times.
Requiring response protocols should produce faster agency responses to reports and improve passenger safety and confidence in using transit.
Passengers with limited English proficiency will get outreach and reporting options in multiple languages, improving their ability to report incidents and access support.
Collecting sensitive demographics (race, religion, sexual orientation, income, disability) creates privacy risks for passengers if de-identification fails or data are re-identified.
Transit agencies will incur administrative and compliance costs to build multilingual reporting systems and publish datasets, which may divert limited funds from operations, service, or fares.
Including these data in the National Transit Database increases federal aggregation of sensitive information, raising oversight and data-security concerns.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires large urban transit agencies to collect, publish de-identified data on street harassment, provide reporting channels and outreach, adopt response protocols, and report data to the National Transit Database.
Requires public transit agencies that receive 5307 funding and serve urbanized areas of 200,000+ people to create programs that collect, publish, and respond to data on street harassment of transit riders. Agencies must offer digital and in-person reporting, gather incident details and passenger demographic information, conduct multilingual outreach, publish de-identified data publicly, and adopt response protocols. Also defines “street harassment” in statute tied to protected characteristics under civil-rights laws and requires any collected street-harassment data to be included in the National Transit Database.
Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to require certain recipients of Federal assistance for public transit systems to establish a program to collect data on passenger harassment on public transit systems, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 7, 2026 by Dave Min · Last progress May 7, 2026