Not so fast: DeKalb raises traffic tickets fees
Steeply discounted traffic tickets were too good to be true in DeKalb County.
A $25 court cost fee on each ticket has been reinstated after revenue plunged over the last year.
Even with the fee, traffic tickets are still cheaper than they were a year ago after the court lowered fines for offenses from speeding to aggressive driving.
But the court cost fee is back. With 90,000 traffic tickets issued a year, the fee could raise about $2.25 million annually.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
