[What, no cash award for turning in your next-door neighbor? --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: For Politech: CA CHP asks motorists to rat on their neighbors... Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:12:40 -0700 From: Thomas Leavitt <thomas@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Change Plates - Or Make Them a major crackdown starting today, the California Highway Patrol wants residents statewide to turn in fellow motorists they suspect of illegally driving vehicles with out-of-state license plates. The public is being asked to jot down license plate numbers and other information and send it anonymously to CHP headquarters via computer. With that, the agency will track down violators. The effort will also be a moneymaker for California, says the head of the Highway Patrol, Commissioner D.O. "Spike" Helmick. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-register20apr20,1,2334098.story?coll=la-headlines-california Under the project, the public is being urged to use a CHP website to anonymously report possible violations, http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/cheaters.html. >From there, a handful of patrol officers and staff, using a nationwide computer system, will begin tracking down registration and driver's license information and send a demand for overdue California fees. _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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