Boston and Washington DC are the first cities take away your right to Due Process.
Cities eliminate right to contest parking tickets
In an attempt to stem the loss of revenue from motorists contesting parking tickets, cities are effectively eliminating the traditional due process rights of motorists to defend themselves at an impartial hearing. By the end of next year, Washington, DC’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will not allow anyone who believes he unfairly received a citation to have his day in an administrative hearing.
“DMV will complete the phase-out of in-person adjudication of parking tickets in favor of mail-in and e-mail adjudication by December 2008,” the Fiscal Year 2008 DMV plan states.
The move is intended to allow automated street sweeper parking ticket machines to boost the number of infractions cited well beyond the 1.6 million currently handed out by meter maids. As one-third of those who contest citations in the city are successful, the hearings cut significantly into the $100 million in revenue tickets generate each year.
I’m all for automation and making things operate more smoothly, except when it involves the government being able to tax me.
What with all the “Hating the Constitution” the leftwing “Constitutional Watchdogs” have the Bush Administration doing, I’m very truly surprised that they aren’t wetting themselves over this.
Ok, so I’m not really surprised.