PA: Audit: Traffic Court collections are slipping

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The city's perennially troubled Traffic Court
has fallen further behind in efforts to collect
fines and payments, according to an audit report
issued yesterday afternoon by state Auditor
General Robert P. Casey Jr.

. . .

The audit assigned part of the blame to
deficiencies in the computer system used by
Traffic Court and maintained by an outside
vendor.

. . .

Casey's auditors found the "significant
deficiencies" in the court's computer system
might have caused "systemic problems that
contributed to the high percentage of
uncollected funds."

. . .

According to the audit, the computer system
was unable to generate requests that the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
suspend the licenses of people who did not
pay their fines. The system also was unable
to process "all the citations issued by the
police."

The report also found that receipt numbers
"were not captured in the data files" and that
the computer system could not process money
received from the auctioning off of vehicles
that had been seized.

Philly.com

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), March 30, 2001


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