It’s good that the city of Wichita has dropped plans to pursue legislation ending the requirement that it give cited motorists a mailed warning before their licenses are revoked.
As state Sen. Phil Journey, R-Haysville, has said, “it’s only fair†to give people the notice before they lose their licenses. It’s possible to simply forget to pay a fine. And it’s reasonable to give citizens a mailed reminder before they lose something as important as driving privileges.
The City Council recently decided to keep sending out that final mailed notice, but they’re still pursuing a compromise bill that would allow them to collect $5 for each mailing to offset administrative costs.
That’s only fair, too.
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I would agree that the person increasing the cost should pay for it. A driver who is in violation often enough to have his/her lisense suspended should be notified, and that cost addted to the cost of reinstating the lisense.
We should have notifications and suspensions for failure to maintain proper auto insurance coverage as well.
My wife got one of those notices for a parking ticket up in Kansas City KS. Interesting since her car had never even been in KC. When I was finally able to get some information we determined that the offending vehicle was a TRUCK and the KC cops had falsified the tag number. A simple check on their part would have shown that her Buick CAR was not the truck they were after.
Especially in this age of ID theft etc I would like to see the authorities maintain at least a semplence of due process before threatening to jail people.
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