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City staff say old address data has led to wasted notices as council weighs amnesty, DMV holds
Summary
City staff told the Syracuse City Council that outdated address records have caused mailed parking violation notices to be returned, and staff said they are researching an amnesty program and other enforcement tools including DMV registration holds.
A city staff member told the Syracuse City Council that parking-violation notices sent to addresses from the 1990s and earlier often are returned and “just gonna come back and be a waste of money and time.”
City staff described a one-time project that hired LexisNexis to trace current addresses for people who had older tickets so notices could be forwarded to current locations. The staff member said the project produced an updated list and that the city has not repeated that exact project outside of that special effort.
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