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Sunday, April 06, 2008 |
OT: Clearly, I've Got The Wrong Plates
Apropos after getting pulled over in a Seal Beach speed trap... the Register has uncovered a secret State of California program in which a staggering 996,716 vehicles have special licenses that essentially get the driver/owner out of traffic tickets, parking tickets, and all kinds of other ordinary legal trouble.
An Orange County Register investigation has found that the program, designed 30 years ago to protect police from criminals, has been expanded to cover hundreds of thousands of public employees – from police dispatchers to museum guards – who face little threat from the public. Their spouses and children can get the plates, too.The state DMV refused to give the Register a list of the number of motorists involved and the agencies they claim as an employer unless the paper first paid the DMV $8,442 for the information. Unsurprisingly, the paper refused to pay that much for public information.This has happened despite warnings from state officials that the safeguard is no longer needed because updated laws have made all DMV information confidential to the public.
The Register found that the confidential plate program shields these motorists in ways most of us can only dream about:
- Vehicles with protected license plates can run through dozens of intersections controlled by red light cameras and breeze along the 91 toll lanes with impunity.
- Parking citations issued to vehicles with protected plates are often dismissed because the process necessary to pierce the shield is too cumbersome.
- Some patrol officers let drivers with protected plates off with a warning because the plates signal that the drivers are "one of their own" or related to someone who is.
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