Circular DC Bureaucracy
Jan 04, 2006 2:20 PM
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The local government in our capital never ceases to amaze me with its incompetence:
After Washington, D.C. collected more than $1.5 million in fines from a faulty red light camera, one court ruled that attorney Daniel Wemhoff couldn't bring suit to reimburse those who were wrongly ticketed unless he could provide their names.
Later, another court denied Wemhoff's Freedom of Information Act request to access those names, concluding that releasing that information would violate the motorists' privacy.
Which means that the District will likely get to keep the $1.5 million it wrongly collected from the faulty camera.
Comments: Circular DC Bureaucracy
Wemhoff should leverage the power of the Internet. Hire a foreign company to spam people with a "if you received a ticket at intersection X and Y and resulted in your paying a fine, please contact me at blah-blah-blah" and start collecting everyone's names.
:-)
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