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Judges and Judiciary

Dec. 16, 2011

Traffic fine plan has LA seeing red

An amnesty program for traffic-fine scofflaws that the state and the judiciary hopes will fill its bare coffers is drawing sharp criticism from California's largest county.


By Pat Broderick


Daily Journal Staff Writer


An amnesty program for traffic-fine scofflaws that the state and the judiciary hopes will fill its bare coffers is drawing sharp criticism from California's largest county.


The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday decided to ask the Judicial Council to reconsider a provision that bars offenders from participating if they have made payments on their traffic tickets since 2009.

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