Sacramento – Investigators with the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) caught 136 people misusing disabled person parking placards during 21 enforcement operations in May 2019. Investigators confiscated the placards that were being misused and cited the offenders. The citations carry fines that range from $250 to $1,000.
“DMV investigators have made their enforcement operations very public in order to educate drivers and stop the misuse of disabled person parking placards,” said California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) President Alan Barcelona. “Still people insist on convenience over courtesy and respect for those who need parking spaces closes to the places they visit.”
During the past eleven months, DMV investigators have issued 1,866 citations and verified 20,420 disabled person parking placards.
The DMV holds as many as 24 enforcement operations each month throughout the state targeted at curbing disabled person parking placard abuse.
The following results are from enforcement operations held in May 2019:
San Francisco: 5 cited, 75 drivers contacted
Bakersfield: 6 cited, 48 drivers contacted
Chula Vista/San Diego: 11 cited, 63 drivers contacted
Patterson: 4 cited, 35 drivers contacted
Roseville: 6 cited, 101 drivers contacted
Los Angeles : 5 cited, 48 drivers contacted
Pico Rivera : 14 cited, 68 drivers contacted
Rohnert Park: 4 cited, 42 drivers contacted
Long Beach : 5 cited, 89 drivers contacted
San Jose : 8 cited, 91 drivers contacted
El Cajon/San Diego: 16cited, 91 drivers contacted
Oxnard/Ventura: 5 cited, 63 drivers contacted
Escondido: 11 cited, 63 drivers contacted
Folsom: 2 cited, 127 drivers contacted
Monterey Park: 7 cited, 106 drivers contacted
Fresno/Clovis : 3 cited, 59 drivers contacted
Perris: 8 cited, 80 drivers contacted
Santa Clarita/Valencia: 8 cited, 70 drivers contacted
Valencia: 2 cited, 30 drivers contacted
Westminster area: 6 cited, 88 drivers contacted
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Total: 21 operations 136 1,437
