County to squeeze deadbeats
So reads the headline in a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette story today with the subline: “Clerk tallying unpaid traffic fines, court fees.”
It will eventually become more difficult to get away with unpaid traffic tickets in Allen County.
Therese Brown, Allen County clerk, said plans are in the works to increase efforts to collect unpaid court fines and fees, although collecting the debt will have to wait until her office determines exactly how much money is owed.
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Last month, the New Haven City Council approved a plan for its city court to hire a collection agency from Columbus, Ohio, to help recoup more than $350,000 in outstanding fees.
