Cuyahoga County owed $10K in unpaid parking, traffic tickets

CLEVELAND (AP) — The new leaders of Ohio’s largest county have learned that the old regime left taxpayers with $10,000 in unpaid parking and traffic tickets.

Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald in Cleveland says he can’t go after most of the offending drivers because he can’t even tell who they were. Many of the violations were from Cleveland speeding cameras.

Former county administrator James McCafferty tells The Plain Dealer that some departments in the old administration didn’t track who was using their cars. He says parking tickets would get thrown away.

FitzGerald took office this year as part of a county government overhaul and calls the old practices “incomprehensible.” He vows that the county will now keep better watch over its fleet of more than 300 vehicles.