City of Orlando, road agencies scramble to address...

It will be interesting to see who they hire. Politics will have to enter this venue, or everyone could lose Big money. They don't want to hire people who will be "Fair"....They could all lose money.....lots of it. These will end up being a Friend of a friend appointments, who will understand that they will have to deny most (if not all) recipients of these tickets the opportunity to have these tickets ajudicated fairly. There is too much money involved to include fairness.....In America, Money has always superceded the rights we think we have in a Democratic society.

"agreed to shell out nearly $30,000 to hire at least two hearing officers"
Why dont you hire some judges to relieve the backlog of real criminal offenders and keeep them in jail instead of turning them loose on the citizens. Waste of resources and time better spent on the real problems facing the area.

"Once that [idea] gets out there, who really will pay attention to parking laws?" Orlando spokeswoman Heather Allebaugh said. "People will get smart to that."

Thanks for the heads up!

This is getting pathetic why not hold a bake sale?

Something tells me thee is a conflict of interest when you use proceeds from fines to pay the people that preside over the hearings on fines

Alan wrote:

"agreed to shell out nearly $30,000 to hire at least two hearing officers"
Why dont you hire some judges to relieve the backlog of real criminal offenders and keeep them in jail instead of turning them loose on the citizens. Waste of resources and time better spent on the real problems facing the area.

Ummm...this isn't about slapping people on the wrist for minor civil violations, this is about the hundreds of thousands (or maybe even more) dollars in revenue that this government desperately needs!!!

Just be honest and pay your tickets when you get caught. How's that for "truth in America."

How about not parking in handicapped spots and fire lanes, and just paying your fine if you choose to violate our laws...

Government agencies are being ignored---as they should be

Alan wrote:

"agreed to shell out nearly $30,000 to hire at least two hearing officers"
Why dont you hire some judges to relieve the backlog of real criminal offenders and keeep them in jail instead of turning them loose on the citizens. Waste of resources and time better spent on the real problems facing the area.

Idiot, judges =$100k plus a year, and it will take two to conduct the hearings of all these people parking in handicapped spots, fire lanes, etc etc etc who won't man up and admit they shouldn't have parked in that fire lane or whatever.

2 part time hearing officers =$30k. A taxpayer savings of $170,000 per year.

It always is amusing when people like you start spouting off about "why don't they do this or that about violent crimes and ignore (insert crime here)" when you have no idea how much ignoring the enforcement of these "minor" crimes would directly effect your daily way of life. You'd be the 1st one screaming about it when it did.

Pay your tickets, folks!

Is there ANYONE who did not point all of this out back when they 'judiciously' let the hearing officers go?!!

A revenue stream generated under the disguise of enforcing the law. Parking tickets, toll violations etc. are just a smokescreen to provide a source of easy money to cities, counties and agencies. The defenders of this arcane system no doubt are employed and suck the giant mammary of government idiocy. Put down the dohnut step away from the teat and wake up morons.

JSs wrote:

Just be honest and pay your tickets when you get caught. How's that for "truth in America."

Guess you forgot that ALL are presumed innocent, even if they get a ticket. I'm sure you would like your "Day-in-Court" if you wanted to contest a ticket.

The Expessway Authority is corrupt and has never had a good reputation. I'm sure the hearing officers will be hired on a politcal cronie basis.

Truth in America wrote:

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Guess you forgot that ALL are presumed innocent, even if they get a ticket. I'm sure you would like your "Day-in-Court" if you wanted to contest a ticket.

Someone concerned with "truth" won't contest a ticket he knows he deserves. Feed the meter like you are supposed to do or take your ticket like a grown man (or woman).

ann wrote:

Is there ANYONE who did not point all of this out back when they 'judiciously' let the hearing officers go?!!

I think these knee jerk reactions are funny. When they let the other people go, who did they think would really do this? Hire the other people back.

I can understand why electronic tolls were instituted. They've saved me a ton of money and time. I can also understand why someone who had plenty of money in their account and never knew they'd been issued a ticket would be upset when their driving license was revoked (they probably wouldn't know about that, either) and they discovered they'd accrued large fines for no apparent reason.

Sounds like bureaucrats trying to blame someone else for their own incompetence to me. The Sanford judge has the right idea. If they can't do their jobs, toss the cases.

Hey, I already got my "parked in handicapped" ticket tossed because of this. Win!

ehh just a minor hitch. We just got our hearing officers back for non moving and moving civil violations after they said we would lose them for good....parking will soon following. Keep taking me to court...pays me OT