Posted on 04/05/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by kellynla
It's 1:45 p.m. on a Wednesday in February and a Toyota Camry is driving west on the 91 Express Lanes, for free, for the 470th time.
The electronic transponder on the dashboard – used to bill tollway users – is inactive. The Camry's owners, airport traffic officer Rudolph Duplessis and his wife, Loretta, have never had a toll road account, officials say.
They've never received a violation notice in the mail, either. Their car is registered as part of a state program which hides their home address on Department of Motor Vehicles records. The agency that operates the tollway does not have legal access to their address.
Their Toyota is one of 996,716 vehicles registered to motorists who are affiliated with 1,800 state and local agencies and who are allowed to shield their addresses under the Confidential Records Program.
An Orange County Register investigation has found that the program, designed 30 years ago to protect police from criminals, has been expanded to cover hundreds of thousands of public employees – from police dispatchers to museum guards – who face little threat from the public. Their spouses and children can get the plates, too.
This has happened despite warnings from state officials that the safeguard is no longer needed because updated laws have made all DMV information confidential to the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
“Well, by all means, let’s publicly shame some of the ‘better-than-thou’ offenders by reproducing their names?”
“Shame?” These clowns don’t have any “shame”...
they don’t even know how to spell it. LOL
I'm waiting for this bucket mouth to respond to 59.
SaaAaaaaY? Isn’t this the old Soviet model? Where there is one set of laws for the proletariat and no laws for the party apparatchiks. Why it’s so progressive that it’s almost maddening.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
oooooooh I would think most file...like everyone who does file though, they just do all they can to pay as little tax as possible...unless they’re planning to run for POTUS. LOL
But with only half of Americans paying federal income taxes, I am for eliminating the federal income tax and the I.R.S. and replacing it with a national sales tax.
The “on the way to a vote” excuse is specifically guaranteed to Representatives and Senators in the U.S. Constitution.
Story appears to be coming up on J&K KFI Los Angeles
Bttt............. on KFI now.
Everyone is equal. Some are more equaler than others.
If I thought we had a limited supply of idiots to run for office I would be for term limits.
Because the wacko liberals out here are not as stuck up and conceited as those New England liberals.
It's bad here but it's not California bad.
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