New York City and state court administrators want to make it more difficult to ignore court summonses that are issued in the five boroughs. Every year, about 40 percent of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers receiving familiar pink tickets for low-level offenses–such as drinking and urinating in public, littering and riding a bike on the sidewalk–ignore, forget or otherwise miss their appointed court dates, resulting in arrest warrants and even jail time.
