Comments on: D.C.’s Sweepercam—Or Should We Say “Sweeperscam?

By: Ready to be Sweeperscammed? - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Ready to be Sweeperscammed? - City Desk - Washington City Paper — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:31:00 +0000

[...] The expensive "all-knowing" one-of-a-kind camera sometimes captures the plate numbers of innocents, as one resident can attest. Despite the cameras fouling up at least 500 tickets last year, DPW spokesperson Nancee Lyons says [...]

By: Street Sweepers (and Their Spying Cameras) Hibernate Today - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000

[...] adieu to your friendly neighborhood sweeper/undercover spy—it’s winter now, according to the Department of Public Works (DPW). Linda Grant, a DPW [...]

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By: Q!

Q! — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:28:06 +0000

Did the City ever announce this program? Also, leaving the pause/record up to the drivers seems a little subjective you think? Just this morning, I saw two of them in my neighborhood. I would never think that a "pelican" would be a menacing vehicle. I now know different.

Fenty's plan to fix the budget shortfall, ticket the H*LL out of its citizens and visitors. Tickets have doubled in cost, yet we are getting LESS out of DMV. They closed a service station, inspections are less thorough, yet we are paying MORE ($35).

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:00:30 +0000

Given the number of times I've received letters demanding I pay double for failing to paying a ticket I never received (including one memorable incident when I was, according to the DC government, pulled over in downtown DC while my car and I were in Philadelphia) I have to wonder if it is policy to leave the cameras on at all times secure in the knowledge that many, if not most, people will just pay to avoid the hassle of contesting a bogus ticket.

By: amnesty!

amnesty! — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:44:08 +0000

I've gotten a couple of bogus sweeper cam tickets. The first one I got, the camera photographed me on the opposite side of the street from the one being swept that day. I sent in a letter to adjudication services with an explanation and photos showing the sign indicating that it was OK to park there that day, but they say they never received it. The second one, I got both a sweepercam ticket and I paper ticket from a parking enforcement officer, classic double citation for a single violation. Yet to hear from adjudication services on that one. There are so many bugs in the system that thee tickets are issued in an arbitrary and capricious manner. I don't know if this violates due process, but I think an amnesty is only fair until they get the bugs worked out.

By: Peter Nickles ‘Speaks for the Law’: Loose Lips Daily - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:50:01 +0000

[...] Rend Smith discovers that the city’s new ’sweepercams’ have not been without problems. To wit, one Ward 1 resident discovered that sweeper drivers aren’t always conscientious [...]

By: C

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:18:16 +0000

Yeah I got a sweepercam ticket (I was laid up in bed with an injury and unable to move my vehicle). My issue with them is that they didn't mail me the ticket, they sent me a notice that I owed $70 since I had an unpaid ticket where the fine had doubled. So rather than quadrupling their revenue collections for street sweeping fines (the stated goal of the program) they can octuple it and save money on postage as well. I will remember this next November when Fenty comes up for re-election. Where past administrations have been benignly incompetent, the Fenty administration is aggressively incompetent.