What to Know
- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation requiring ride-hailing services to show additional identification
- The act is known as Sami’s Law, after a college student who died after getting into the wrong car she thought was her Uber
- Among the new requirements is that ride-hailing services must issue two identifying markers to each driver for the front and rear windows
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation requiring ride-hailing services to show additional identification after the March death of a University of South Carolina student police say got into the car of an Uber impersonator.
Among the new requirements is that ride-hailing services must issue two identifying markers to each driver. They must be displayed on the front windshield and rear window.
Murphy, a Democrat, signed the legislation Thursday in Robbinsville, the hometown of Samantha “Sami” Josephson. The act is known as Sami’s Law.
Police say Josephson got into the car of an Uber driver impersonator in Columbia, South Carolina. She was killed and her body dumped in the woods 65 miles away.
A man has been charged with kidnapping and murder in the case.
