The Texas Driver Responsibility Program was designed to assess additional fines on motoring offenses such as drunken driving. If the money is not collected, the offender's license is supposed to be suspended.
Well, this isn't fair to poor people says state Senator Elliott Shapleigh. He wants a provision that indigent people don't have to pay the fines. He says people can't pay their fines, they get their licenses suspended, then they have no way to work. Uhhhh -- Senator Shapleigh --- if they weren't violating the law, they wouldn't have a problem now, would they? And a large portion of those currently in arrears were cited for not having a drivers license in the first place.
Mary Moody is an Austin resident who was cited for no insurance. She says that it is hard to see why a program that criminalizes so many Texans would be allowed to continue. Mary, the program doesn't criminalize Texans. I'm a Texan and it hasn't bothered me any. That's because I buy insurance, I don't drive drunk, and I keep my drivers license current. No Texan who does those things need worry about becoming "criminalized."
"High traffic surcharges uncollected." The Dallas Morning News; January 31, 2010; p. 1A.
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