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Pennsylvania city offers parking scofflaws half-off amnesty

Posted June 09, 2016 7:00 am

The Associated Press

EASTON, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania city is owed so much money in unpaid parking fines that it plans to offer a half-off amnesty plan.

WFMZ-TV (http://bit.ly/1VOpT42 ) reports that the Easton City Council announced Wednesday that it will be mailing letters to people with unpaid traffic fines next week. The city hasn't been able to collect some $767,000 in fines.

The letters will tell the scofflaws that they can clear their record if they pay half the fines they owe within two weeks.

Mayor Sal Panto says the tickets have piled up ever since the city decriminalized the parking ticket system in 2013. That means the city stopped sending the tickets to the local district justice to take court action for unpaid tickets.

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Information from: WFMZ-TV, http://www.wfmz.com

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