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Wilmington parking tickets remain hot-button issue

As Ken Grant's FOIA awaits reply, the News Journal reports that parking could be a campaign issue in the mayor's race.

Time's up. (Photo by Flickr user Peter Roome, used under a Creative Commons license)

Ken Grant filed a FOIA request with the Wilmington Parking Authority last month. His request is still pending.
However, some statistics were released to the News Journal Tuesday:

Twenty-three percent of the 2,246 parking tickets that went through the appeals process this year were dismissed, according to data provided by the city to The News Journal. Error on the part of the ticketing officer was the No. 1 reason for dismissal, followed by the complainant proving they had a valid residential parking permit. Broken meters were the reason 71 tickets –– which eventually would be dismissed –– were written in the first place.

The paper reports that parking in Wilmington has “become a simmering issue in the mayoral campaign.”
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