D.C. DMV Plans to Eliminate In-Person Hearings
posted 11:21 am Thu November 08, 2007 - WASHINGTON
The DMV plans to phase out the in-person parking ticket adjudication and replace it with mail and e-mail by December 2008. They're doing this ahead of a new program by the Department of Public Works to put cameras on street sweepers to catch offenders - something they expect will cause parking citations to skyrocket. The DMV says the new adjudication procedures will reduce wait time for customers who have a reason to visit a DMV location.
But Council Member Phil Mendelson said the idea was outrageous and criticized it as violating due process. He says customers have a Constitutional right to fight a ticket in person and the DMV can expect a fight in front of the council.A DMV spokeswoman says that more than 54,100 parking tickets were contested in person in fiscal 2007, and another 78,286 citations were fought by mail.
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Information from: The Washington Examiner,
http://www.examiner.com
Latest Comment on D.C. DMV Plans to Eliminate In-Person Hearings
Eboy
11:43 am on 11/08/07
"customers have a Constitutional right to fight a ticket in person"
They do not. What nonsense. How about hearings by telephone? It would save the hours waiting the current system has.
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