Drivers who were convicted of infractions years ago are being told to surrender their licenses or file costly appeals because Allegheny County never processed the paperwork. A state lawmaker wants to make sure it never happens again.

The court rulings went back years — some more than a decade. But clerks in the county Department of Court Records never sent 20,000 of them to PennDOT in Harrisburg. As a result, about 2,000 drivers were never informed their licenses were to be suspended until now.

"You have people who were convicted of something 10, 15 years ago and are now being punished for it, and that's not how this country works," said Pennsylvania Rep. Natalie Mihalek.

Some convicted of driving under the influence have since turned their lives around but are just now being told

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