Ruston proposes Parking Infraction Hearing Examiner to handle camera citations after courts decline processing
Facing court-capacity constraints, Ruston presented ORD 1600 to create an independent Parking Infraction Hearing Examiner to adjudicate parking and camera infractions and ORD 1601 to amend code references; background materials say Fircrest Municipal Court will not process the volume and Pierce County District Court estimated high costs if contracted, prompting the local hearing-examiner approach.
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The City presented two related ordinances on Feb. 3: ORD 1600 would establish an independent Parking Infraction Hearing Examiner to process parking and automated-camera infractions; ORD 1601 would amend municipal code references to assign jurisdiction to that examiner. Background materials say Fircrest Municipal Court declined to process additional camera-generated infractions due to capacity limits, and that contracting with Pierce County District Court would be costly for the city (the staff background cites an estimated first-year district-court cost of about $3,000,000, or roughly $57 per infraction, figures used to justify a local adjudication system).
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