Gov. Brown Looks to Hike Court Fees to Balance Budget
California residents who want to fight a traffic ticket from home or get copies of legal paperwork would have to shell out more money under Gov. Jerry Brown's "austerity" budget plan for state courts next year.
The governor's spending plan adopts 11 recommendations for increased costs or reduced services that were recommended last month to the state Judicial Council. They help offset some $200 million in cuts Brown warns the state's trial court system will have to make starting the 2014-15 fiscal year. Brown proposes borrowing $200 million from courthouse construction accounts to get the system through the next year.
The fee to oppose a traffic ticket by mail in your home county would go to $50, bringing in $3.2 million more to the state.
Source: LA Times. Read full article. (link)
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I'm sure there is some sort of chicanery that moonbeam didn't include in his 'balanced' budget, but only because he didn't think of it.
He's a pathological liar and has never been otherwise.