“California Stop,” also known as “California Roll,” is an action intended to not to the full extent and stops completely at one stop sign. Whatever it’s called where you live, it’s illegal and could get you $200+ tickets and could land you in hot water with your driving record when it is issued by the authorities. However, an agency in California, not part of any traffic management agency, issued thousands of traffic tickets by secretly recording drivers.
KTLA reports that California’s Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority issues approximately 17,000 stop tickets each year, generating more than $1.1 million in annual revenue. What exactly is the Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority? According to dealer websiteIt is described as “a local public agency dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and protecting open space, wildlife habitat, and urban parkland, mountains, and rivers that are readily accessible to the public.” ”.
So how exactly does a state parks agency that oversees more than 75,000 acres of parkland in Southern California issue so many tickets? In secret, as KTLA described:
At 12:15 p.m. on a sunny day last July, Andrew Rice’s adult child pulled over in the Prius while leaving the Temescal Canyon parking lot near Pacific Palisades.
What Rice’s child didn’t know was that he was being filmed doing so. And the recording will result in a $100 “administrative citation” from the Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority, or MRCA…
The problem with these passes — other than being issued by a state parks agency that has no actual authority to issue them — is that they are technically Are not quote. It seemed their sole purpose was to bring in revenue for the MRCA when a Prius driver was caught being ticketed. “They are committing a scam by pretending to enforce motor vehicle laws when they have no authority to do so, and they are tricking people into paying these tickets,” they told KTLA.
Despite the fact they are not tickets and have no legal consequences, they can still hurt people financially, said Jamie Court, president of the Los Angeles-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog. drive. And that’s what forces people to pay for them. “But it can affect your credit score and affect your chances of getting a mortgage or loan, and no one wants to deal with that. So people just pay instead of fighting it.”
What’s worse is that nothing is being done to stop it. A spokesperson for the agency told KTLA that the cameras and citations are about “public safety.” It seems to be more about collecting money without oversight. “This is a program to generate income for the park system. It’s a terrible abuse. And the fact that it’s gone on for over a decade without anyone doing anything is truly shameful,” Court said.
