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Any Volunteers?

If you get a red-light-camera citation in Los Angeles, Calif., you can tear it up. Really. The City Council committee that oversees the traffic enforcement cameras recommended that the city stop sending the citations, and “phase out” the cameras. While someone — even a collection agency — might call on the phone and say “pay up,” says Councilman Bill Rosendahl, “there’s no real penalty in terms of your driver’s license or any other consequences if you don’t pay.” Richard M. Tefank, executive director of the city’s Board of Police Commissioners, confirms: such traffic tickets are now part of a “voluntary payment program” with no sanctions for not paying the fine noted on the citation. (RC/Los Angeles Times) ...The Board of Police Commissioners can now expect citizens to give them the “voluntary finger.”