Pedestrian Tickets Lead to Hundreds of Suspended Driver’s Licenses [propublica.org]

Alicia Doktor 12/14/174:00 AM

This story was co-published with the Florida Times-Union.

More than half the 2,000 people who received pedestrian tickets in Duval County, Florida, from 2012 to 2016 saw their driver’s licenses suspended or their ability to obtain one limited, according to an analysis by the Florida Times-Union and ProPublica.

The tickets, which carry what can seem like a modest $65 fine, can have more significant consequences for those who get them and refuse to pay or are unable to do so.

Over five years, a total of 2,004 pedestrian tickets were issued in Duval County, which is comprised almost entirely by the city of Jacksonville. Of those tickets, 982 people who failed or were unable to pay the fine lost their driver’s licenses or their ability to obtain one, according to the analysis.

[For more on this story by Topher Sanders and Benjamin Conarck, go to https://www.propublica.org/art...f-suspended-licenses]

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