Ticket fixing 'audit' became informal review
Previously In March, the San Diego Police Department said it was launching an audit to find out whether a ticket fixing case was an isolated incident or more widespread. The case involved a 27-year...
View ArticleAudit cites ex-D.C. Council member in ticket-fixing scheme
The D.C. office of the inspector general says a former council member tried to get 10 traffic tickets voided last year by leveraging a law that exempts legislators from parking rules while on official...
View ArticleDC council chairman charged; will resign seat
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the District of Columbia Council was charged Wednesday with lying about his income on loan applications and told colleagues in a closed-door meeting later in the day...
View ArticleDMV Daily: Biddle Wins D.C. Council Seat
As this column had predicted, Sekou Biddle, Ward 4 Board of Education member and executive director of Jumpstart for Young Children, was selected to serve as an At-Large member on the D.C. Council...
View ArticleMayor Antonio Villaraigosa orders end to 'Gold Card' program for officials...
By Rick Orlov, Staff WriterPosted: 05/20/2011 01:01:50 PM PDTUpdated: 05/20/2011 07:21:55 PM PDT The gold card which was received by Ed Reyes office. Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News....
View ArticleSDPD audits citations after ticket-fixing case
More SAN DIEGO The San Diego Police Department has launched an audit to try to uncover whether allegations that a sergeant fixed a ticket for a county prosecutor could be an isolated incident or...
View ArticleDormont mayor can toss out tickets again
In Dormont, Wednesday night is parking ticket night again. As a result of recent council action, longtime Mayor Tom Lloyd has resumed his practice of reviewing and dismissing parking tickets during...
View ArticleCity Councilman wants to take leasing power away from Dept of Public Works
A new report from D.C. city council says the D.C. Department of Public Works (DPW) leasing of two Lincoln Navigators for D.C. City Council Chairman Kwame Brown. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and City...
View ArticleBiddle unable to hold off Orange for at-large seat on D.C. Council
Primary night election races in D.C. were fairly predictable – with the exception of one. When all precincts had reported, at-large incumbent Vincent Orange edged Sekou Biddle by 543 votes – a margin...
View ArticleDC Council chair resigns after bank fraud charge
The chairman of the District of Columbia Council resigned Wednesday effective immediately after being charged with lying about his income on loan applications. The bank fraud charge against Kwame R....
View ArticleD.C. Council candidates scramble for primary votes
The driver on Benning Road NE cried out to D.C. Council candidate Tom Brown, standing in front of his modest campaign headquarters Sunday: “What you up to?” “Countdown! Countdown! Countdown!” Brown...
View Article'Gold Card Desk' dismissed some L.A. parking tickets without justification,...
City Controller Wendy Greuel raises the specter that some people may have received special treatment in the handling of contested traffic tickets. 1 | ...
View ArticleD.C. Agencies Owe Thousands in Unpaid Tickets
Employees of D.C. government are accumulating thousands of dollars in parking tickets, and for many agencies, there is no system in place to track who they are. That's what a new report says, written...
View ArticleCity Employees Are Racking Up Parking Tickets
Employees of D.C. government are accumulating thousands of dollars in parking tickets, and for many agencies, there is no system in place to track who they are. That's what , written by Tommy Wells'...
View ArticleFinal results expected in Biddle-Orange D.C. Council race
Elections officials in the District are counting nearly 5,000 absentee and provisional ballots today to determine the final result of a hotly contested Democratic primary race on April 3 for at-large...
View ArticleOrange defeats Biddle after final count in D.C. Council primary
D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange has finally survived a nail-biter of a Democratic primary election, defeating challenger Sekou Biddle by more than 1,700 votes after special ballots were tallied...
View ArticleDC's special elections expects low turnout
The District’s Tuesday special election has been met with relatively slow turnout to fill an open at-large seat in the city council. Six Democrats, a Republican, an Independent, and a Statehood Green...
View ArticleDMV Daily: Gray Digs Deeper
After a series of reports on hires with dubious backgrounds, Mayor Vincent Gray has ordered additional background checks on “Excepted Service employees” -- that is, political hires. The Washington...
View ArticleCouncil Fights Over Free Tickets
“I want your everything, as long as it’s free.” And Jim Graham wants his free Lady Gaga tickets. The Washington Post reports this morning that D.C. councilmembers’ “annual...
View ArticleD.C. Dems hold election for temporary council seat
WASHINGTON - Democratic party officials in Washington will be meeting to determine who should fill an open D.C....
View ArticleBiddle to challenge Orange in primary for D.C. Council seat
Sekou Biddle, a former member of the D.C. State Board of Education and the D.C. Council, said Friday he is challenging D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange in the April Democratic primary, setting up...
View ArticleCouncil Candidates Discuss Brown's Ethics
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown's campaign ethics problems are prompting criticism and even calls for a federal investigation into his campaign finances. On the Kojo Nnamdi Politics Hour Friday,...
View ArticleIN OTHER WORDS: Turnover on D.C. Council not driven by voters
With the bow tied neatly on the political career of former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. now has taken down two members of the 13-member legislative body in...
View ArticleOne-third of D.C. Council faces primary voters
More than a third of the D.C. Council faced the voters Tuesday for the first time since the start of a major corruption investigation into city government, providing the first real test of how the...
View ArticleCharacter, ethics top issues of D.C. Council elections
Character and ethics are dominating D.C. Council elections for a second year, as candidates clash over how to reform the city government as they campaign ahead of Tuesday's primary. For the first time...
View ArticleOur choices for D.C. Council
LESS THAN a year ago, as voters selected an at-large D.C. Council member in a special election, the precarious state of city politics was becoming clear. Shaken by scandal, the District government,...
View ArticleDMV Daily: Council Members Rally Behind Biddle
A lot of members of the D.C. Council really don’t want their old colleague Vincent Orange to return. Council members Muriel Bowser, Mary Cheh and Harry Thomas Jr. confirmed to The Washington Post that...
View ArticleOrange Declares Victory in Special Election
Vincent Orange declared victory last night in the special election for D.C.'s at large-council seat. The D.C. Board of Elections unofficial results gave Orange the victory with 28 percent of the vote....
View ArticleOrange Declares Victory in At-Large Election
Vincent Orange declared victory last night in the special election for D.C.'s at large-council seat. The D.C. Board of Elections unofficial results gave Orange the victory with 28 percent of the vote....
View ArticleSekou Biddle Trying to Take Back D.C. Council Seat
Former D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle is trying to win back his old seat. Biddle filed papers Tuesday to run as a Democrat for the at-large council seat currently occupied by Democrat Vincent...
View ArticleBiddle running again for at-large DC Council seat; was defeated by Orange in...
WASHINGTON — Former D.C. Councilmember Sekou (SAY-koo) Biddle is trying to win back his old seat. Biddle filed papers Tuesday to run as a Democrat for the at-large Council...
View ArticleKwame Brown resignation: Mendelson, Orange vie for D.C. Council chair
The D.C. Council’s four at-large members are eligible to run to become interim chairman in the aftermath of Kwame R. Brown’s resignation. David A. Catania (I) and Michael A. Brown (I) are not...
View ArticleL.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kills Gold Card parking ticket service
L.A. transportation department is ordered to halt system a day after an audit criticized the program for lax oversight and potential misuse. The mayor's office disputed City Controller Wendy Greuel's...
View ArticleBiddle running for D.C. Council, setting up Orange rematch
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View Article5 D.C. Council members appear to win Democratic primary
The five D.C. Council members on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary elections appeared to win even as they faced voters for the first time since the start of a major corruption investigation into city...
View ArticleDMV Daily: Busy Last Day For D.C. Council
It wasn’t quite the frenetic lame duck session continuing on Capitol Hill, but the D.C. Council still pushed through a rush of legislation on its last working day of 2010 -- and Vincent Gray’s last...
View ArticleYou want to be a council member too?
Some Washingtonians believe the race to fill the at-large D.C. City Council seat has narrowed to tow men: Sekou Biddle and Republican Patrick Mara. "The mayor has endorsed Biddle, and I'm going to...
View ArticleDMV Daily: Slightly Less in the Red
D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi had some rare good news on Tuesday, announcing that D.C.’s budget deficit, recently projected at nearly $600 million, is down to $322 million thanks to...
View ArticleDenver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets, despite audit...
A red-light camera is pictured at Sixth Avenue and Lincoln Street. Denver may extend the photo program but modify fines. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) Following an audit that criticized...
View ArticleD.C. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to ‘cover the entire city’ with traffic cameras
Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Tuesday that he plans to “cover the entire city” with speed and other traffic cameras to make the District safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, a proposal that could...
View ArticleAudit: Miami Beach bar and club inspections had lax oversight, little...
The code and fire inspectors who for months ignored violations at a South Beach nightclub in exchange for comped parties and thousands in cash bribes may have been aided by a flawed and disorganized...
View ArticleEx-DC Council chairman pleads guilty to 2 charges
WASHINGTON — The former chairman of the District of Columbia Council pleaded guilty Friday to lying about his income on bank loan applications, the latest blow to a city government rocked by scandal....
View ArticleDenver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets, despite audit...
Following an audit that criticized Denver's traffic photo-enforcement program as having unproven results, the City Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to renew the contract of the photo red-light...
View ArticleD.C. Council member questions Inspector General Charles Willoughby’s...
In the past two years, D.C. Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby has investigated two of the city’s most politically sensitive controversies — how the District awarded its lottery contract and...
View ArticleLA ends special parking ticket review program
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