Mayors Group Recognizes Public-Private Partnership to Catch Parking Scofflaws
March 05 2008 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
DALLAS, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The City of Wilmington's
program to catch parking scofflaws recently won national attention
from Mayors throughout the United States. The Delaware city's
Parking Enforcement Initiative was recognized with an Outstanding
Achievement Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The
Wilmington Department of Finance works with Affiliated Computer
Services, Inc. (ACS) to increase the collection of parking fines
from repeat offenders through this innovative program. ACS has
provided parking violation processing and collection services to
the city since 1993. "Partnering with ACS has provided the
technology and best practices we need to keep pace with our city's
increasing parking fine collection demands," said Wilmington Mayor
James Baker. "ACS helped bring an innovative, service-oriented
approach to getting parking scofflaws to pay their fines, enhancing
public safety and increasing city revenue." Under the initiative,
Wilmington Police Department enforcement personnel patrol the city
with a vehicle equipped with Mobile License Plate Recognition
technology to review the license plates of parked cars. The license
plates are checked against ACS' parking ticket online database to
identify vehicles with more than $125 in delinquent violations. A
city employee applies a self-releasing "smart" boot to identified
vehicles after confirming the motorist's violations are still
outstanding. After paying fines using a credit card, debit card, or
check-by-phone, violators are given a code to remove the boot,
which they then return to designated drop-off locations. "The award
recognizes the benefits of a forward-thinking government and
business working together for the public good," said Michael
Huerta, ACS managing director, Transportation Solutions. "Through
our partnership the city is able to automate and streamline a
time-consuming function." The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the
official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of
30,000 or more. ACS is the industry leader in providing
transportation services to governments worldwide. ACS' business
helps government agencies in more than 30 countries address their
challenges through revenue collection and regulation compliance
services. Its industry-leading solutions include electronic toll
collection, public transport fare collection, parking fare
collection, public safety photo enforcement, commercial vehicle
credentialing, traffic and parking violation processing and
collection, and port management services. ACS, a global FORTUNE 500
company with 62,000 people supporting client operations reaching
more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and
information technology solutions to world-class commercial and
government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on
the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS." Learn more
about ACS at http://www.acs-inc.com/. DATASOURCE: Affiliated
Computer Services, Inc. CONTACT: Andy Wilson, Director, Corporate
Communications of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.,
+1-214-841-8004, Web site: http://www.acs-inc.com/
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