Nassau comptroller: Unpaid tickets 'urgent issue'
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | A parking ticket on the windshield on a car at the Mineola LIRR station. (May 4, 2011)
Nassau's Traffic and Parking Violations Agency needs a new system to collect tens of millions in outstanding fines, according to Comptroller George Maragos.
"The growing backlog of unpaid tickets is an urgent issue that requires more aggressive collection efforts," Maragos said in a news release Tuesday about his audit of the system.
He praised improved agency actions after John Marks...
