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Public Safety Commission plans to cancel contract with Driver Responsibility fee collections vendor

At a Texas Public Safety Commission meeting today, the vendor in charge of collections for the Orwellian-named "Driver Responsibility" surcharge faced a brutal reaction from commission members, who questioned the company's "ethics" and openly called for their contract to be terminated as soon as feasible. Department of Public Safety staff promised to prepare an agenda item to end the contract (which requires 90 days notice) at the next Commission meeting in August.Chairman Allan Polunsky, in particular, was frustrated that a contract paying the vend0r $12 million per year over the last three years - up from $4 million the first full year it was issued - had been renewed recently for a five-year term without the PSC ever being notified or taking a formal vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 17, 2009 (boomark / email).