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>I am lucky. I can pay that. It sucks but some people would be out food money if they suddenly had to pay $500 to drive again.

Absolutely, court fees and fines disproportionately punish those with low incomes. Increasing enforcement of low level violations by surveillance tech and/or AI is going to crush a lot of people if we don't change that fact.

https://www.npr.org/2014/05/19/312158516/increasing-court-fe...

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/09/municipal-courts-war-...

parent goatsi 8 years ago

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