The unpaid fine amount that triggers police authority to impound a vehicle has been raised to $2,500 from the previous $1,000 threshold, and the types of traffic citations that can count toward that total have been narrowed.
by officials who said the program disproportionately punished vehicle drivers unable to pay fines while also not improving public safety as intended.
The Anchorage Police Department believes the ordinance “is an effective tool for keeping dangerous drivers off the street,” spokeswoman Renee Oistad said in an email Wednesday. The department “thinks it was a good decision to keep the scofflaw ordinance,” she said. The ordinance will also be somewhat retroactive, requiring the administration to recalculate a person’s delinquent fine total before seizing their vehicle, using the measure’s more narrow definition of applicable citations.
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