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Search results for "handicapped parking" ...
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Double Standard
The story investigates the alleged unfair treatment of individuals in an Indiana traffic court.
Tags: Beech Grove; traffic court; handicapped parking; parking; ticket
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No title (id: 14022)
The story details how motorists abuse New York's handicapped parking law. Cagey motorists beg, borrow and steal permits to get prime parking spaces. Others ignore the law, regulation of which is lax.
Tags: Gibbs Craig Drivers hog parking spots reserved for people with disabilities 6 pgs.
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No title (id: 12821)
WTVT-TV found that hundreds of motorists were fraudulently obtaining and, or, using disabled hangtags to park for free, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars and inconveniencing the truely-disabled. WTVT-TV found the state system to be totally archaic. (Feb. 2, 3, Aug. 9 & Nov. 10, 1995)
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Handicapped Parking
KGET-TV (Bakersfield, Calif.) documents a police department's insufficient enforcement of handicap parking laws; includes follow-up reports on the department's resulting policy changes, Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 1989.
Tags: TAPE; Transcript; Keeshan
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No title (id: 4458)
Oolagah (Okla.) Lake Leader investigates a not-for-profit project which planned to build a multi-million-dollar biblical theme park and institution for the mentally handicapped, raising money through fraudulent claims, March 1985-August 1986.
Tags: Messiah Project
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No title (id: 3106)
WPVI-TV (Philadelphia) reports on able-bodied people using license plates intended for the handicapped to get free parking and special parking places; no doctor certification is needed to obtain the plates in Pennsylvania, October 1984.
Tags: Tape
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No title (id: 3078)
WJZ-TV (Baltimore) reports on the use of license plates intended for the handicapped by people who are not handicapped as a means of parking free and avoiding crowded streets, 1984.
Tags: None