October 9, 2010

City may allow private firm to boot cars in driveways

With the city’s program of booting the vehicles of people who fail to pay their property tax bills and parking tickets beginning to lag, officials are considering a new move to boost enforcement.
The city initially required that VioAlert Systems use its license plate scanning technology only in parking lots and other public areas.
Now it’s considering whether to let the firm search residential areas, too, and even boot the cars and trucks it finds in the driveways of scofflaws.
During a test run one night recently, when no boots were actually used, the company found 25 violators who owe the city more than $13,000, according to a memorandum by Tax Collector Teresa Babon. Click here for the full story.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

We cant count on BRISTOL POLICE TO DO ANYTHING. Why is that.

Anonymous said...

Seems the Police should be doing this. Maybe the unions dont want the babies to work more than a hour a day. They HAVE TO GET THERE REST FOR ALL THE OVERTIME.

make it easy said...

the economy is tough but booting can be avoided by paying taxes in full or going to the tax collector's office and setting up a payment plan.
anyone who owes taxes has to pay them sooner or later so do it without having to worry about "booting."

Anonymous said...

LETS LET THE COPS DO SOMETHING. Seems to me we pay them to sit in parking lots and bull shit. Give them a job.

incumbents OUT !!!! said...

Maybe the "booting"on Nov. 2nd will put an end to some of this nonsense.

Anonymous said...

4:25

More appropriately, booting all of them out on November 8 2011!!!

Anonymous said...

Here's an idea. Put these "boots" on all the police cruisers at the start of each shift. Specially modify them so that each one has an alcohol breath test apparatus hooked up to an electronic lock that would open the boot if the officer assigned to that cruiser for that shift passes the alcohol test. Presto, this eliminates the need for worrying about a few drunk cops driving around town and getting in accidents, resulting in cover-up investigations and all that ugliness. The savings in lawsuits alone would offset the parking ticket and property tax revenue to be had by trespassing on everyone's private property (this is also eventually going to result in a lawsuit) to ferret out these dangerous delinquent vehicle tax scofflaws! The good cops, which we assume to be in the majority, shouldn't mind this inconvenience to catch the ones that are sullying their reputation as a group.

Anonymous said...

How are our leaders going to get to work if the cars are booted in their driveways ?? ;-)

Anonymous said...

You must all be law breakers, because I am all for putting boots on vehicles, even if they are in their driveways, if they have not paid their tickets. Why did they get so many tickets in the first place? That's the first question to ask. The second question is why didn't they pay them? They obviously have no regard for the law and if they couldn't afford to pay the tickets in the first place, then they shouldn't have parked illegally. The police are doing their job and so are those that make the rules. It's all about breaking the law and every one of you think it's okay to do so. Pathetic!!! Chances are you are the ones with the tickets and are afraid you're going to get the boot!