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In July, the city attorney’s office barred the couple and their businesses — Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing, and Specialty Towing and Recovery — from bidding on and obtaining city contracts for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also named in multiple fraud cases. In an ongoing 2021 civil case against Fuentes, court documents allege that after Badillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state, he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco district attorney’s office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies in October related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme. According to court documents, while Fuentes worked as a senior eligibility worker for the city’s Human Services Agency, she approved Badillo’s benefits requests. He reported having a monthly income of $1,000 and no additional assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Badillo received public benefits, his and Fuentes’ companies had a gross annual income of over $2 million. According to court documents, they also own four properties in San Francisco and, in 2023, bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo has not yet obtained counsel and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 20 for identification of representation. Najarro’s next court appearance is set for Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jose Badillo, co-owner of a towing company that San Francisco officials labeled “predatory,” faces charges in an alleged auto insurance fraud scheme.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1723528419,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":576},"headData":{"title":"SF Tow Operator Accused of Scamming Drivers Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges | KQED","description":"Jose Badillo, co-owner of a towing company that San Francisco officials labeled “predatory,” faces charges in an alleged auto insurance fraud scheme.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Tow Operator Accused of Scamming Drivers Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges","datePublished":"2024-08-12T15:15:59-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-12T22:53:39-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11999844","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11999844/sf-tow-operator-accused-of-scamming-drivers-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An embattled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/towing\">towing\u003c/a> company operator and his alleged accomplice pleaded not guilty to insurance fraud, money laundering and other federal charges on Monday, days after an FBI raid once again thrust the company into the spotlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Badillo, co-owner of a towing company that San Francisco officials labeled “predatory” and barred from doing business with the city for five years, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999449/sf-tow-operator-faces-insurance-fraud-more-charges-after-fbi-probe\">accused of attempting to defraud an auto insurance company\u003c/a> with Jessica Najarro. Both face mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges, U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on July 9, the pair allegedly “conspired to defraud an insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Badillo purchased in June 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car was undrivable and severely damaged when Badillo bought it. Najarro obtained an insurance policy for it and, one month later, falsely reported that it had been in a single-car accident, prosecutors said. The indictment alleges that she was reimbursed $34,037.48 by an insurance company, and the money was deposited into a bank account controlled by Badillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and Najarro were arrested on Thursday, hours after the FBI raided a Specialty Towing location on Oakdale Avenue in San Francisco. Badillo co-owns a Specialty Towing location in Oakland that appears to be related to the spot visited by FBI agents that morning. Both locations are among seven listed on the company’s \u003ca href=\"https://specialtytowingbayarea.com/locations/\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice said the indictment is the result of an investigation by the FBI and the criminal investigation division of the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11997360","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240724-SAMMY-HALLAQ-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and Abigail Fuentes, who own three towing companies that operate in the Bay Area, got into previous trouble with San Francisco for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">illegally towing vehicles\u003c/a> and scamming their owners for years, dating back at least to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997360/this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues\">February 2019\u003c/a>. In July, the city attorney’s office barred the couple and their businesses — Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing, and Specialty Towing and Recovery — from bidding on and obtaining city contracts for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are also named in multiple fraud cases. In an ongoing 2021 civil case against Fuentes, court documents allege that after Badillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state, he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco district attorney’s office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies in October related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme. According to court documents, while Fuentes worked as a senior eligibility worker for the city’s Human Services Agency, she approved Badillo’s benefits requests. He reported having a monthly income of $1,000 and no additional assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Badillo received public benefits, his and Fuentes’ companies had a gross annual income of over $2 million. According to court documents, they also own four properties in San Francisco and, in 2023, bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo has not yet obtained counsel and is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 20 for identification of representation. Najarro’s next court appearance is set for Sept. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11999844/sf-tow-operator-accused-of-scamming-drivers-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-charges","authors":["11913"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_17725","news_23052","news_38","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_11999875","label":"news"},"news_11999449":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11999449","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11999449","score":null,"sort":[1723160021000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-tow-operator-faces-insurance-fraud-more-charges-after-fbi-probe","title":"SF Tow Operator Faces Insurance Fraud and More Charges After FBI Probe","publishDate":1723160021,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Tow Operator Faces Insurance Fraud and More Charges After FBI Probe | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After FBI officials raided Specialty Towing in San Francisco on Thursday, a tow company operator appeared in federal court, charged with insurance fraud and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Badillo was indicted on four counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges related to a scheme to defraud an auto insurance company, U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey announced Thursday. Jessica Najarro faces the same charges as Badillo, one of two owners of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">“predatory” towing company\u003c/a> that was barred from doing business with San Francisco for five years last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on July 9, the pair allegedly “conspired to defraud an insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Badillo purchased in June 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car was undrivable and severely damaged. Najarro obtained an insurance policy for it and, one month later, falsely reported that it had been in a single-car accident. An insurance company reimbursed her $34,037.48. The indictment alleges the money was deposited into a bank account controlled by Badillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and Najarro were arrested on Thursday. Both were released on $50,000 bonds. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 12. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice said the indictment is the result of an investigation by the FBI and the criminal investigation division of the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday morning, an FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency had “conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity in the 2000 block of Oakdale Avenue in San Francisco.” FBI officials, an armored vehicle and an ambulance \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1en7fye/fbi_raid_at_specialty_towing/?rdt=51540\">were seen\u003c/a> outside 2045 Oakdale Avenue, the address of Specialty Towing, early Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11996890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1020x668.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear whether the raid was related to Specialty Towing, which Badillo owns. The FBI spokesperson contacted by KQED declined to provide additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://specialtytowingbayarea.com/locations/\">website for Specialty Towing\u003c/a> lists seven Bay Area locations, including one on Oakdale Avenue as well as an address on 87th Avenue in Oakland. The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office confirmed the latter address is associated with a towing company owned by Badillo and Abigail Fuentes, who came under fire after a video showing a Specialty Towing truck \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\">trying to tow a moving vehicle went viral\u003c/a> in April. On July 23, City Attorney David Chiu announced that the couple had been barred after finding they illegally towed cars and scammed owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple operated three towing companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. Reports of people being scammed by the companies date back at least to February 2019, when Sammy Hallaq had his black 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser illegally towed from a Foods Co. parking lot in the Bayview. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997360/this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues\">Hallaq’s quest for retribution\u003c/a> eventually led to Badillo and Fuentes being charged with a combined 18 felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11997360 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240724-SAMMY-HALLAQ-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing also illegally towed at least six vehicles from a bank parking lot in the Portola neighborhood between February and May 2023 without the bank’s permission, and Chiu said his office found that Auto Towing “was engaged in predatory behavior and unfair business practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the company intentionally misled and scammed people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars and taking them to a lot separate from their permitted operating location, “making it difficult for owners to find their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">also named in multiple civil \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">and criminal welfare fraud cases\u003c/span>. In an ongoing 2021 civil fraud case against Fuentes, court documents allege that after Badillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state — he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies in October related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme. The couple are also alleged to have defrauded multiple benefits programs. According to court documents, while Fuentes worked as a senior eligibility worker for the city’s Human Services Agency, she approved Badillo’s benefits requests. He reported having a monthly income of $1,000 and no additional assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While receiving public benefits, Fuentes and Badillo’s companies had a gross annual income of over $2 million. According to court documents, they also own four properties in San Francisco and, in 2023, bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Fuentes and Badillo were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jose Badillo, one of the owners of a towing company that came under fire after a video showing a truck attempt to tow a moving vehicle went viral, is accused of conspiring to defraud an insurance company.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1723161409,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":810},"headData":{"title":"SF Tow Operator Faces Insurance Fraud and More Charges After FBI Probe | KQED","description":"Jose Badillo, one of the owners of a towing company that came under fire after a video showing a truck attempt to tow a moving vehicle went viral, is accused of conspiring to defraud an insurance company.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Tow Operator Faces Insurance Fraud and More Charges After FBI Probe","datePublished":"2024-08-08T16:33:41-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-08T16:56:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"fbis-early-morning-raid-at-sf-tow-yard-appears-tied-to-recent-controversies","nprStoryId":"kqed-11999449","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11999449/sf-tow-operator-faces-insurance-fraud-more-charges-after-fbi-probe","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After FBI officials raided Specialty Towing in San Francisco on Thursday, a tow company operator appeared in federal court, charged with insurance fraud and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Badillo was indicted on four counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering charges related to a scheme to defraud an auto insurance company, U.S. Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey announced Thursday. Jessica Najarro faces the same charges as Badillo, one of two owners of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">“predatory” towing company\u003c/a> that was barred from doing business with San Francisco for five years last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on July 9, the pair allegedly “conspired to defraud an insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Badillo purchased in June 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The car was undrivable and severely damaged. Najarro obtained an insurance policy for it and, one month later, falsely reported that it had been in a single-car accident. An insurance company reimbursed her $34,037.48. The indictment alleges the money was deposited into a bank account controlled by Badillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Badillo and Najarro were arrested on Thursday. Both were released on $50,000 bonds. They are scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 12. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice said the indictment is the result of an investigation by the FBI and the criminal investigation division of the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday morning, an FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency had “conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity in the 2000 block of Oakdale Avenue in San Francisco.” FBI officials, an armored vehicle and an ambulance \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1en7fye/fbi_raid_at_specialty_towing/?rdt=51540\">were seen\u003c/a> outside 2045 Oakdale Avenue, the address of Specialty Towing, early Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11996890","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1020x668.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not immediately clear whether the raid was related to Specialty Towing, which Badillo owns. The FBI spokesperson contacted by KQED declined to provide additional information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://specialtytowingbayarea.com/locations/\">website for Specialty Towing\u003c/a> lists seven Bay Area locations, including one on Oakdale Avenue as well as an address on 87th Avenue in Oakland. The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office confirmed the latter address is associated with a towing company owned by Badillo and Abigail Fuentes, who came under fire after a video showing a Specialty Towing truck \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\">trying to tow a moving vehicle went viral\u003c/a> in April. On July 23, City Attorney David Chiu announced that the couple had been barred after finding they illegally towed cars and scammed owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple operated three towing companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. Reports of people being scammed by the companies date back at least to February 2019, when Sammy Hallaq had his black 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser illegally towed from a Foods Co. parking lot in the Bayview. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997360/this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues\">Hallaq’s quest for retribution\u003c/a> eventually led to Badillo and Fuentes being charged with a combined 18 felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11997360","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240724-SAMMY-HALLAQ-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing also illegally towed at least six vehicles from a bank parking lot in the Portola neighborhood between February and May 2023 without the bank’s permission, and Chiu said his office found that Auto Towing “was engaged in predatory behavior and unfair business practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said the company intentionally misled and scammed people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars and taking them to a lot separate from their permitted operating location, “making it difficult for owners to find their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">also named in multiple civil \u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">and criminal welfare fraud cases\u003c/span>. In an ongoing 2021 civil fraud case against Fuentes, court documents allege that after Badillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state — he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies in October related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme. The couple are also alleged to have defrauded multiple benefits programs. According to court documents, while Fuentes worked as a senior eligibility worker for the city’s Human Services Agency, she approved Badillo’s benefits requests. He reported having a monthly income of $1,000 and no additional assets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While receiving public benefits, Fuentes and Badillo’s companies had a gross annual income of over $2 million. According to court documents, they also own four properties in San Francisco and, in 2023, bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Fuentes and Badillo were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11999449/sf-tow-operator-faces-insurance-fraud-more-charges-after-fbi-probe","authors":["11913"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_1386","news_17626","news_17725","news_167","news_425","news_27626","news_23052","news_38","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_11999460","label":"news"},"news_11997360":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11997360","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11997360","score":null,"sort":[1722096028000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues","title":"This SF Man Stood Up to the Viral Predatory Towing Company. His Fight Continues","publishDate":1722096028,"format":"standard","headTitle":"This SF Man Stood Up to the Viral Predatory Towing Company. His Fight Continues | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s impossible to know how many San Franciscans were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">scammed over the years by Jose Badillo and Abigail Fuentes\u003c/a>, but February 2019 might have been the beginning of the end for their towing when a black 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser was towed from a Foods Co. parking lot in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sammy Hallaq lived across the street from the store and ran to stop his car from being towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them to release it on the spot because the car was still in the parking lot,” Hallaq, 58, told KQED. “If you catch them in the act and you request that they release the car, by law, they have to release it and charge you just the hook-up fee. They refused, and they drove off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That marked the beginning of a yearslong legal battle with Badillo and Fuentes, who have operated three tow companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. Earlier this week, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office announced it had prevailed in a proceeding to block the predatory tow truck companies from doing business with the city for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process, called debarment, began last year after one of the companies bid for a city contract. While researching the company, the city found that it had been illegally towing cars and scamming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research Hallaq did in his quest to recover damages from the illegal tow was shared with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. It eventually led to Badillo and Fuentes being charged with a combined 18 felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing was using predatory business practices, such as making it difficult for people to find and retrieve their cars, causing them to rack up daily storage fees. The company pressured people to pay in cash, according to a statement from the city attorney’s office. The predatory towing and scamming appears to go back years, possibly to 2016 when Badillo opened Jose’s Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Badillo also operates Specialty Towing and Removal, which, in April, was caught in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video that went viral\u003c/a> attempting to tow a car in the middle of traffic while the driver tried to maneuver away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hallaq, who works as a linguist and translator, first called Auto Towing to retrieve his car, they sent him to the wrong location. Then, he was told he couldn’t get his car back because it was the weekend. After several hours of phone calls, he got to his car. He said an employee tried to pressure him to pay the $504 fee in cash, but he refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his car back and went home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching the laws that have to do with towing, and I realized that there are violations all over the place,” Hallaq said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 23, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said Auto Towing had been “intentionally misleading and scamming people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq said he noticed negative reviews on Yelp where people described similar experiences with the company. He called and asked for some of his money back. He said Auto Towing rightfully could have charged him for the hook-up fee, but he shouldn’t have had to pay the charges for towing and storage. He offered to split the cost, requesting a refund of $252. But the employee he spoke to declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq kept calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked to speak to the owner or manager and they would not let me speak to him,” he said. “They kept brushing me off, hoping that I would just go away like so many other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t. When his calls stopped being answered, he used *67 to block the caller ID. Then, he started using his friends’ phones and downloaded apps that allowed him to call from different numbers.[aside postID=news_11996890 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1020x668.jpg']After two weeks of calling, Hallaq said he was invited to a meeting. When he arrived, Hallaq said the employee asked to see the receipt he had from retrieving his car. He claims the employee wouldn’t give it back. Hallaq called the police, who arrived and got the receipt back to him. Hallaq said he was told not to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had another option to try to recover some of the $504 — small claims court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No attorney would take a case like this,” Hallaq said. He filed the claim himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a menace to society,” Hallaq said. “I like to stand my ground. But I also believe that I’m doing a community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq was born in Jordan and moved to the U.S. 35 years ago. He came to California to take over an immigration consulting business for a family member who was moving back to the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent some time to learn the ins and outs, and I took over the business for three years,” he said. “Even though I’m not an attorney, I consider that I have a little bit of legal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He investigated the couple and their businesses using publicly available records. He found that Badillo had his towing license revoked by the state in 2017 and that he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes. The business changed its name from Jose’s Towing to Auto Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small claims case ended in a judgment of $4,016 for Hallaq. But when he tried to collect the money, Fuentes filed a request to make monthly $75 payments instead of a lump sum, saying she was unemployed and on public assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t add up for Hallaq, so he contacted the consumer protection department in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. A spokesperson for the district attorney did not respond to questions inquiring about Hallaq’s involvement in the investigation into Badillo and Fuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three years after Hallaq contacted the district attorney, the office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six for an alleged welfare fraud scheme. The charges include misappropriation of public funds, grand theft and perjury under oath. In February, they pleaded not guilty to all charges, and their next court date is in September, according to Randolph Quezada, a spokesperson for the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s investigation revealed that Fuentes and Badillo were receiving public assistance while “jointly operating three tow businesses in San Francisco, generating over $2 million in gross annual income” since 2018, according to an affidavit signed by Franklin Lowe, a special investigator in the Human Services Agency.[aside postID=news_11996211 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPoliceChief2024-1020x701.jpg']They allegedly bought two commercial buildings, two residential properties, boats and several cars, including a $290,000 Lamborghini, according to the affidavit. The investigation also uncovered that Fuentes worked at the Health Services Agency as a senior eligibility worker and had approved Badillo’s application for public benefits without disclosing that they were in a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the facts are still being ascertained,” said Allen Sawyer, an attorney representing Badillo. “There’s a lot of discovery. There’s a lot of dynamics at play here, and I think people need to keep an open mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Fuentes in the criminal case did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo could not be reached by phone. An employee for a phone dispatch service that takes calls for Auto Towing said the company had been dissolved. Fuentes filed a certificate of termination with the state on June 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq is still in court to get Fuentes and Badillo to pay for the illegal tow. After receiving two of the court-ordered monthly payments from Fuentes, the payments stopped. In 2021, he sued Fuentes and Badillo for fraud. He is seeking $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really spend so much time, if you look at the paperwork — it’s hundreds of pages, and that takes time,” Hallaq said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo hired Xochitl Carrion, a former San Francisco assistant district attorney, to represent them in the fraud case. In a text message, Carrion, who no longer represents the couple, wrote that she could not comment, citing attorney-client privilege. As of July 26, no attorneys were registered with the San Francisco Superior Court on the case. Hallaq is still representing himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next hearing is scheduled for Aug. 7. Hallaq hopes they’ll pay him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m willing to go another 20 years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"“They are a menace to society. I like to stand my ground. But I also believe that I’m doing a community service,\" said Sammy Hallaq, a San Francisco resident whose vehicle was illegally towed by Auto Towing in 2019.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722109532,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1501},"headData":{"title":"This SF Man Stood Up to the Viral Predatory Towing Company. His Fight Continues | KQED","description":"“They are a menace to society. I like to stand my ground. But I also believe that I’m doing a community service," said Sammy Hallaq, a San Francisco resident whose vehicle was illegally towed by Auto Towing in 2019.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"This SF Man Stood Up to the Viral Predatory Towing Company. His Fight Continues","datePublished":"2024-07-27T09:00:28-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-27T12:45:32-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11997360","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11997360/this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s impossible to know how many San Franciscans were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years\">scammed over the years by Jose Badillo and Abigail Fuentes\u003c/a>, but February 2019 might have been the beginning of the end for their towing when a black 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser was towed from a Foods Co. parking lot in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sammy Hallaq lived across the street from the store and ran to stop his car from being towed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them to release it on the spot because the car was still in the parking lot,” Hallaq, 58, told KQED. “If you catch them in the act and you request that they release the car, by law, they have to release it and charge you just the hook-up fee. They refused, and they drove off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That marked the beginning of a yearslong legal battle with Badillo and Fuentes, who have operated three tow companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. Earlier this week, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office announced it had prevailed in a proceeding to block the predatory tow truck companies from doing business with the city for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process, called debarment, began last year after one of the companies bid for a city contract. While researching the company, the city found that it had been illegally towing cars and scamming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research Hallaq did in his quest to recover damages from the illegal tow was shared with the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. It eventually led to Badillo and Fuentes being charged with a combined 18 felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing was using predatory business practices, such as making it difficult for people to find and retrieve their cars, causing them to rack up daily storage fees. The company pressured people to pay in cash, according to a statement from the city attorney’s office. The predatory towing and scamming appears to go back years, possibly to 2016 when Badillo opened Jose’s Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Badillo also operates Specialty Towing and Removal, which, in April, was caught in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video that went viral\u003c/a> attempting to tow a car in the middle of traffic while the driver tried to maneuver away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/gqvDedeuCl0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/gqvDedeuCl0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>When Hallaq, who works as a linguist and translator, first called Auto Towing to retrieve his car, they sent him to the wrong location. Then, he was told he couldn’t get his car back because it was the weekend. After several hours of phone calls, he got to his car. He said an employee tried to pressure him to pay the $504 fee in cash, but he refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got his car back and went home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching the laws that have to do with towing, and I realized that there are violations all over the place,” Hallaq said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 23, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said Auto Towing had been “intentionally misleading and scamming people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq said he noticed negative reviews on Yelp where people described similar experiences with the company. He called and asked for some of his money back. He said Auto Towing rightfully could have charged him for the hook-up fee, but he shouldn’t have had to pay the charges for towing and storage. He offered to split the cost, requesting a refund of $252. But the employee he spoke to declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq kept calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked to speak to the owner or manager and they would not let me speak to him,” he said. “They kept brushing me off, hoping that I would just go away like so many other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t. When his calls stopped being answered, he used *67 to block the caller ID. Then, he started using his friends’ phones and downloaded apps that allowed him to call from different numbers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11996890","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322125500-1020x668.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After two weeks of calling, Hallaq said he was invited to a meeting. When he arrived, Hallaq said the employee asked to see the receipt he had from retrieving his car. He claims the employee wouldn’t give it back. Hallaq called the police, who arrived and got the receipt back to him. Hallaq said he was told not to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had another option to try to recover some of the $504 — small claims court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No attorney would take a case like this,” Hallaq said. He filed the claim himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just about the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a menace to society,” Hallaq said. “I like to stand my ground. But I also believe that I’m doing a community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq was born in Jordan and moved to the U.S. 35 years ago. He came to California to take over an immigration consulting business for a family member who was moving back to the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent some time to learn the ins and outs, and I took over the business for three years,” he said. “Even though I’m not an attorney, I consider that I have a little bit of legal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He investigated the couple and their businesses using publicly available records. He found that Badillo had his towing license revoked by the state in 2017 and that he transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes. The business changed its name from Jose’s Towing to Auto Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small claims case ended in a judgment of $4,016 for Hallaq. But when he tried to collect the money, Fuentes filed a request to make monthly $75 payments instead of a lump sum, saying she was unemployed and on public assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t add up for Hallaq, so he contacted the consumer protection department in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. A spokesperson for the district attorney did not respond to questions inquiring about Hallaq’s involvement in the investigation into Badillo and Fuentes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three years after Hallaq contacted the district attorney, the office charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six for an alleged welfare fraud scheme. The charges include misappropriation of public funds, grand theft and perjury under oath. In February, they pleaded not guilty to all charges, and their next court date is in September, according to Randolph Quezada, a spokesperson for the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s investigation revealed that Fuentes and Badillo were receiving public assistance while “jointly operating three tow businesses in San Francisco, generating over $2 million in gross annual income” since 2018, according to an affidavit signed by Franklin Lowe, a special investigator in the Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11996211","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFPoliceChief2024-1020x701.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They allegedly bought two commercial buildings, two residential properties, boats and several cars, including a $290,000 Lamborghini, according to the affidavit. The investigation also uncovered that Fuentes worked at the Health Services Agency as a senior eligibility worker and had approved Badillo’s application for public benefits without disclosing that they were in a relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the facts are still being ascertained,” said Allen Sawyer, an attorney representing Badillo. “There’s a lot of discovery. There’s a lot of dynamics at play here, and I think people need to keep an open mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Fuentes in the criminal case did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo could not be reached by phone. An employee for a phone dispatch service that takes calls for Auto Towing said the company had been dissolved. Fuentes filed a certificate of termination with the state on June 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallaq is still in court to get Fuentes and Badillo to pay for the illegal tow. After receiving two of the court-ordered monthly payments from Fuentes, the payments stopped. In 2021, he sued Fuentes and Badillo for fraud. He is seeking $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really spend so much time, if you look at the paperwork — it’s hundreds of pages, and that takes time,” Hallaq said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo hired Xochitl Carrion, a former San Francisco assistant district attorney, to represent them in the fraud case. In a text message, Carrion, who no longer represents the couple, wrote that she could not comment, citing attorney-client privilege. As of July 26, no attorneys were registered with the San Francisco Superior Court on the case. Hallaq is still representing himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next hearing is scheduled for Aug. 7. Hallaq hopes they’ll pay him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m willing to go another 20 years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11997360/this-sf-man-stood-up-to-the-viral-predatory-towing-company-his-fight-continues","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_167","news_23052","news_38","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_11997367","label":"news"},"news_11996890":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11996890","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11996890","score":null,"sort":[1721772030000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years","title":"'Predatory' San Francisco Towing Company Barred From City Business for 5 Years","publishDate":1721772030,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Predatory’ San Francisco Towing Company Barred From City Business for 5 Years | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A couple whose company was accused of illegally towing cars and scamming the owners out of money to get their vehicles back have been barred from doing business with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for five years, City Attorney David Chiu announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abigail Fuentes and Jose Badillo operate three tow companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. The process to ban the companies from bidding on or receiving contracts with the city — known as debarment — was brought by Chiu in August after his office became aware of illegal tows by Auto Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we dug into this, we discovered how Auto Towing was engaged in predatory behavior and unfair business practices, intentionally misleading and scamming people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars,” Chiu said. “It also turns out that their permitted operating location was in one place, but they were towing vehicles to another lot at a different location, making it difficult for owners to find their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing illegally towed at least six vehicles from a bank parking lot in the Portola neighborhood between February and May 2023 without the bank’s permission. The law requires the property owner’s authorization to tow from private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one occasion, employees of the company tried to tow a car while the bank’s manager argued with them and told them to stop, but they eventually left after the manager took photos and threatened to call the police, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\">video of a Specialty Towing driver attempting to tow a moving vehicle\u003c/a> in San Francisco went viral. The company also pressured car owners to pay in cash to get their cars back, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo did not attend the debarment hearing, allowing the city attorney to proceed with the case expeditiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just didn’t show up, which was pretty surprising,” Chiu said. “It made it a bit easier on us to prove our case as no one presented evidence on the other side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Bardillo are also named in multiple separate civil fraud cases and a criminal welfare fraud case. In an ongoing 2021 civil fraud case against Fuentes, court documents allege that Bardillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state, that he then transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in October charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme.[aside postID=news_11996234 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFMayoralDebate2-1020x765.jpg']The couple are alleged to have defrauded multiple benefits programs. In one instance described in court documents, Fuentes, working for the city’s Human Services Agency as a senior eligibility worker, approved Badillo’s application for benefits without disclosing their relationship. Badillo reported $1,000 in monthly income with no assets, property or vehicles, a Human Services Agency investigator wrote in an affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While receiving public benefits, Fuentes and Badillo’s three tow truck companies generated over $2 million in gross annual income, they own four properties in San Francisco, and last year they bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal case has not been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still pending. All the facts are still being ascertained. You know, there’s a lot of discovery, there’s a lot of dynamics at play here, and I think people need to keep an open mind,” said Allen Sawyer, an attorney representing Badillo in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Fuentes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An employee for a phone dispatch service that takes calls for Auto Towing said Tuesday that the company had been dissolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he had heard that the company had closed but added, “We don’t know anything for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debarment proceedings have become more frequent, Chiu said, after legislation adopted in recent years has “made it easier for the city to suspend contractors accused of crimes relevant to their ability to receive city funding and gave us the power to move forward a bit more expeditiously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fiscal year that ended in June, the city attorney’s office issued suspension orders or submitted requests to debar 29 individuals or entities — compared with 11 suspensions or debarments in the prior three years, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The operators of Auto Towing, which was accused of illegally towing cars and scamming their owners, also face felony charges related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721841154,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":782},"headData":{"title":"'Predatory' San Francisco Towing Company Barred From City Business for 5 Years | KQED","description":"The operators of Auto Towing, which was accused of illegally towing cars and scamming their owners, also face felony charges related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Predatory' San Francisco Towing Company Barred From City Business for 5 Years","datePublished":"2024-07-23T15:00:30-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-24T10:12:34-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11996890","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A couple whose company was accused of illegally towing cars and scamming the owners out of money to get their vehicles back have been barred from doing business with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> for five years, City Attorney David Chiu announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abigail Fuentes and Jose Badillo operate three tow companies: Auto Towing, Jose’s Towing and Specialty Towing and Recovery. The process to ban the companies from bidding on or receiving contracts with the city — known as debarment — was brought by Chiu in August after his office became aware of illegal tows by Auto Towing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we dug into this, we discovered how Auto Towing was engaged in predatory behavior and unfair business practices, intentionally misleading and scamming people out of hundreds of dollars by illegally towing cars,” Chiu said. “It also turns out that their permitted operating location was in one place, but they were towing vehicles to another lot at a different location, making it difficult for owners to find their cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto Towing illegally towed at least six vehicles from a bank parking lot in the Portola neighborhood between February and May 2023 without the bank’s permission. The law requires the property owner’s authorization to tow from private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one occasion, employees of the company tried to tow a car while the bank’s manager argued with them and told them to stop, but they eventually left after the manager took photos and threatened to call the police, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqvDedeuCl0\">video of a Specialty Towing driver attempting to tow a moving vehicle\u003c/a> in San Francisco went viral. The company also pressured car owners to pay in cash to get their cars back, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Badillo did not attend the debarment hearing, allowing the city attorney to proceed with the case expeditiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just didn’t show up, which was pretty surprising,” Chiu said. “It made it a bit easier on us to prove our case as no one presented evidence on the other side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuentes and Bardillo are also named in multiple separate civil fraud cases and a criminal welfare fraud case. In an ongoing 2021 civil fraud case against Fuentes, court documents allege that Bardillo was banned by the California attorney general in 2017 from ever operating a towing business in the state, that he then transferred ownership of the business to Fuentes and continued to run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office in October charged Fuentes with 12 felonies and Badillo with six felonies related to an alleged welfare fraud scheme.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11996234","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/SFMayoralDebate2-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The couple are alleged to have defrauded multiple benefits programs. In one instance described in court documents, Fuentes, working for the city’s Human Services Agency as a senior eligibility worker, approved Badillo’s application for benefits without disclosing their relationship. Badillo reported $1,000 in monthly income with no assets, property or vehicles, a Human Services Agency investigator wrote in an affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While receiving public benefits, Fuentes and Badillo’s three tow truck companies generated over $2 million in gross annual income, they own four properties in San Francisco, and last year they bought a Lamborghini valued at over $280,000, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal case has not been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still pending. All the facts are still being ascertained. You know, there’s a lot of discovery, there’s a lot of dynamics at play here, and I think people need to keep an open mind,” said Allen Sawyer, an attorney representing Badillo in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney representing Fuentes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An employee for a phone dispatch service that takes calls for Auto Towing said Tuesday that the company had been dissolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu said he had heard that the company had closed but added, “We don’t know anything for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debarment proceedings have become more frequent, Chiu said, after legislation adopted in recent years has “made it easier for the city to suspend contractors accused of crimes relevant to their ability to receive city funding and gave us the power to move forward a bit more expeditiously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the fiscal year that ended in June, the city attorney’s office issued suspension orders or submitted requests to debar 29 individuals or entities — compared with 11 suspensions or debarments in the prior three years, according to the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11996890/predatory-san-francisco-towing-company-barred-from-city-business-for-5-years","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_167","news_23052","news_3174","news_38","news_18173","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11997008","label":"news"},"news_11734028":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11734028","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11734028","score":null,"sort":[1553042680000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":72},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1553042680,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"Towing Reform: New Bill Seeks to Repeal ‘Poverty Tows’","title":"Towing Reform: New Bill Seeks to Repeal ‘Poverty Tows’","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>For many Californians, having a car towed is not only a costly inconvenience but can mean losing access to a job, education, medical care or even shelter, according to a new report by a coalition of civil rights attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [aside tag='towing' label='Towing in California']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, “\u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/TowedIntoDebt.Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Towed Into Debt\u003c/a>,” found that the top three reasons for towing — unpaid parking tickets, expired car registration or parking in a legal spot for more than 72 hours — disproportionately impacted low-income Californians, causing many of them to permanently lose their vehicle. The report, which included data on city-ordered towing practices across California, was released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu is taking action on these findings: He introduced Assembly Bill 516 on Monday. If passed, the bill would repeal the three towing policies he and advocates say are “poverty tows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don't have the money to pay your parking tickets or to update your registration, the idea that the state should be able to deprive you of the most valuable economic asset you have, which will cause you to lose your job, your livelihood or even your only shelter, doesn't make any sense to me,” he said in announcing the legislation at a San Francisco tow lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11689602 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report, vehicles impounded for the three offenses are up to six times more likely to be sold by towing companies than the average towed car. Cars that aren’t retrieved within 30 days are put up for auction in lien sales to offset the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_10547173' label='Why is Towing So Expensive in San Francisco?']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More courts are realizing that punishing people just because they can’t afford to pay is not in line with our constitutional principles,” said Elisa Della-Piana, legal director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lccr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>, one of the contributors to the report. “The 4th Amendment prohibits unreasonable seizures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before retrieving a car impounded by the city, the owner has to pay off all parking tickets and any registration fees. The report says that getting a car back can cost an average of $1,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Mary Lovelace, a former home improvement specialist: The city of San Francisco towed her car after they booted it for not paying parking tickets. Unable to drive to her clients, she said she couldn’t afford the fees to retrieve her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was evicted because I couldn't pay the rent,” said Lovelace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11734046 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Lovelace is one of many Californians who have permanentley lost their car due to a city ordered tow,\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Lovelace could not afford to pay her parking tickets and eventually lost her vehicle after a city-ordered tow. (Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED) \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She never got her car back and ended up declaring bankruptcy. She remains without a car and unable to work. Lovelace, who spoke alongside Assemblyman Chiu, said she hopes the bill passes so it can prevent others from being in a situation like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City-ordered tows also drain money from local governments since low income residents are less likely to retrieve their cars from lots, the report found. And, revenue from a lien sale is much less than the cost to store and tow the vehicle, meaning municipalities and towing companies are unlikely to fully collect their debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ctta.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Tow Truck Association\u003c/a> declined to comment to KQED about the new legislation.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11734028 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11734028","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/19/towing-reform-new-bill-seeks-to-repeal-poverty-tows/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":615,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1553123548,"excerpt":"For many Californians, having a car towed is not only a costly inconvenience but can mean losing access to a job, education, medical care or even shelter, a new report finds.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"For many Californians, having a car towed is not only a costly inconvenience but can mean losing access to a job, education, medical care or even shelter, a new report finds.","title":"Towing Reform: New Bill Seeks to Repeal ‘Poverty Tows’ | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Towing Reform: New Bill Seeks to Repeal ‘Poverty Tows’","datePublished":"2019-03-19T17:44:40-07:00","dateModified":"2019-03-20T16:12:28-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"towing-reform-new-bill-seeks-to-repeal-poverty-tows","status":"publish","path":"/news/11734028/towing-reform-new-bill-seeks-to-repeal-poverty-tows","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For many Californians, having a car towed is not only a costly inconvenience but can mean losing access to a job, education, medical care or even shelter, according to a new report by a coalition of civil rights attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"towing","label":"Towing in California "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, “\u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/TowedIntoDebt.Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Towed Into Debt\u003c/a>,” found that the top three reasons for towing — unpaid parking tickets, expired car registration or parking in a legal spot for more than 72 hours — disproportionately impacted low-income Californians, causing many of them to permanently lose their vehicle. The report, which included data on city-ordered towing practices across California, was released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu is taking action on these findings: He introduced Assembly Bill 516 on Monday. If passed, the bill would repeal the three towing policies he and advocates say are “poverty tows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don't have the money to pay your parking tickets or to update your registration, the idea that the state should be able to deprive you of the most valuable economic asset you have, which will cause you to lose your job, your livelihood or even your only shelter, doesn't make any sense to me,” he said in announcing the legislation at a San Francisco tow lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11689602 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the report, vehicles impounded for the three offenses are up to six times more likely to be sold by towing companies than the average towed car. Cars that aren’t retrieved within 30 days are put up for auction in lien sales to offset the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_10547173","label":"Why is Towing So Expensive in San Francisco? "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More courts are realizing that punishing people just because they can’t afford to pay is not in line with our constitutional principles,” said Elisa Della-Piana, legal director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.lccr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay\u003c/a>, one of the contributors to the report. “The 4th Amendment prohibits unreasonable seizures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before retrieving a car impounded by the city, the owner has to pay off all parking tickets and any registration fees. The report says that getting a car back can cost an average of $1,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Mary Lovelace, a former home improvement specialist: The city of San Francisco towed her car after they booted it for not paying parking tickets. Unable to drive to her clients, she said she couldn’t afford the fees to retrieve her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was evicted because I couldn't pay the rent,” said Lovelace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11734046 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Lovelace is one of many Californians who have permanentley lost their car due to a city ordered tow,\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/IMG_5414.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Lovelace could not afford to pay her parking tickets and eventually lost her vehicle after a city-ordered tow. (Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED) \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She never got her car back and ended up declaring bankruptcy. She remains without a car and unable to work. Lovelace, who spoke alongside Assemblyman Chiu, said she hopes the bill passes so it can prevent others from being in a situation like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City-ordered tows also drain money from local governments since low income residents are less likely to retrieve their cars from lots, the report found. And, revenue from a lien sale is much less than the cost to store and tow the vehicle, meaning municipalities and towing companies are unlikely to fully collect their debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ctta.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Tow Truck Association\u003c/a> declined to comment to KQED about the new legislation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11734028/towing-reform-new-bill-seeks-to-repeal-poverty-tows","authors":["11528"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_167","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_10547348","label":"news_72"},"news_11689446":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11689446","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11689446","score":null,"sort":[1535675304000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1535675304,"format":"image","disqusTitle":"Thousands of Californians Live in Cars. Will This Man’s Lawsuit Stop Cities From Impounding Them?","title":"Thousands of Californians Live in Cars. Will This Man’s Lawsuit Stop Cities From Impounding Them?","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ean Kayode says he watched his whole world roll away from him at 3:00 a.m. Kayode had been living in his car in San Francisco for about two years. During the early morning of March 5, traffic police towed and impounded his black 2005 Mercedes Benz -- for having too many overdue parking tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning and there was a guy behind me. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing behind my car?’” Kayode said while standing in the lobby of the Next Door homeless shelter in downtown San Francisco. “He says, ‘I'm just waiting for the tow truck to come get you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kayode, who now lives at Next Door, his car wasn’t just a place to sleep, it was how he earned a living, he said, delivering food through Uber Eats. He shakes his head in disbelief at where he was, and where he is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a homeless guy that worked my way out of homelessness,” Kayode said. “Bought my own car. Now you've taken my car, taken my job and now you're giving me food stamps. It doesn't make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it Unconstitutional to Impound a Car for Unpaid Tickets?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An estimated half million cars a year in California are impounded, unclaimed and sold, according to Jude Pond of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. He said many of those cars belonged to poor people living in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pond helped file a lawsuit on Kayode's behalf to challenge the California law that allows cities to tow a car away if that car has five or more overdue parking tickets. Many cities follow that policy, and Pond said it’s unconstitutional in several ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government should not be allowed to take someone’s property without any notice and without a warrant, he said. That’s doubly true because these vehicles weren’t used in a crime, but were towed simply for financial reasons -- just to collect fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.'\u003ccite>Zev Yaroslavsky, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities do not issue warnings, outside of the fine print on a parking ticket, that they’re coming to impound a vehicle. Parking officers just show up and take it away. And in the case of the homeless who live in their cars, city officials are taking their temporary home from them, which raises the stakes above the taking of a vehicle, Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping that this case sets the precedent that the city should not take people’s only asset -- in this case their car -- for the purpose of satisfying a debt, based on just outstanding parking tickets,\" Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, officers towing a car with a homeless occupant will contact the police department and social services to help that person get services, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, who responded by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be times when the [Homeless Outreach Team] will not be available to respond. If there is no urgency regarding the towing of the vehicle we will make an effort to delay the tow to allow services to respond,” Rose said. “We cannot completely avoid the removal of the vehicle as this would create an unintended exemption for vehicles that are in violation of city or state law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1180x870.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Tipping Point Toward Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Californians are living in their cars. Because losing those cars to impoundment can mean the loss of work and home, it can be a tipping point into a life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, having their car towed for overdue parking tickets is a major annoyance and life disruption. But for homeless people, it’s a permanent loss, because most of them cannot afford to recover their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs escalate quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenders must reimburse the tow charge, roughly $500. They also need to pay off their original tickets and the accrued fines on those tickets, which can be $1,000 or more. On top of all of that, it usually costs $71 for each day the car is stored at the tow yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kayode’s case, more than five months after his car was impounded, it would cost him more than $21,000 to get his car back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about $20,000 more than he paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostensibly, the city is towing the car to collect a debt, but in many cases where cars are unclaimed and eventually sold, the city doesn’t make much money on the sale, if anything. That’s because the tow yard has first dibs on any cash collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities, though, it’s not about the money, according to UCLA political expert Zev Yaroslavsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the credibility of the restrictions,” Yaroslavsky said. “If the restrictions were not enforced, then no one would comply with them. The reason you and I rush out to the parking meter when it’s about to expire, to put another quarter in there, is because we don’t want to pay $80 for the privilege of having overstayed our welcome by a minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yaroslavsky spent four decades in local government in Los Angeles, most of it on the county Board of Supervisors. He said he understands why cities hold onto their impound power with both hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a local elected official I was never concerned about the revenue stream we were getting out of the parking,” Yaroslavsky said. “It was motivated by getting turnover in the limited parking spaces we had available at curbside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he said, there has to be a middle ground when towing cars from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, the middle ground is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say cities could make exceptions for extremely low-income citizens -- maybe let them hold onto the car, but pay off the tickets in installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">How a Transportation Safety Net Could Keep More People Off the Streets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/MetroGoldLine-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some cities, including San Francisco, have a payment-plan program -- but nothing in place to return cars to the homeless or restrict impoundment of those cars in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal district court judge in San Francisco is expected to hear Kayode’s motion in September for a preliminary injunction to get his car back. A hearing on his lawsuit would be scheduled after a ruling on the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the preliminary injunction is granted and San Francisco has to return Kayode’s car, he will still technically owe that $21,000 in parking, towing and storage fees until the case is decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayode, who has been homeless for the past six years, looks back on the incident and its aftermath with a mixture of anger and despair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have my car, I have my phone. That's all I need. I can earn money,” Kayode said. “But right now, they are holding my car hostage. What I want to know is, does taking my car from me help the city budget in one way or another? Is my car going to make them or break them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stops a moment, looks around the crowded and chaotic lobby of the homeless shelter he now calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am back in the same hole,” Kayode said. “And I don't have any way to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"11689446 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11689446","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/30/thousands-of-californians-live-in-cars-will-this-mans-lawsuit-stop-cities-from-impounding-them/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1510,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":37},"modified":1535675304,"excerpt":"For Sean Kayode of San Francisco and thousands of other homeless people living in their cars across California, impoundment can be the tipping point into joblessness and a life on the streets.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"For Sean Kayode of San Francisco and thousands of other homeless people living in their cars across California, impoundment can be the tipping point into joblessness and a life on the streets.","title":"Thousands of Californians Live in Cars. Will This Man’s Lawsuit Stop Cities From Impounding Them? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Thousands of Californians Live in Cars. Will This Man’s Lawsuit Stop Cities From Impounding Them?","datePublished":"2018-08-30T17:28:24-07:00","dateModified":"2018-08-30T17:28:24-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"thousands-of-californians-live-in-cars-will-this-mans-lawsuit-stop-cities-from-impounding-them","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","source":"CALmatters","path":"/news/11689446/thousands-of-californians-live-in-cars-will-this-mans-lawsuit-stop-cities-from-impounding-them","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ean Kayode says he watched his whole world roll away from him at 3:00 a.m. Kayode had been living in his car in San Francisco for about two years. During the early morning of March 5, traffic police towed and impounded his black 2005 Mercedes Benz -- for having too many overdue parking tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning and there was a guy behind me. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing behind my car?’” Kayode said while standing in the lobby of the Next Door homeless shelter in downtown San Francisco. “He says, ‘I'm just waiting for the tow truck to come get you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kayode, who now lives at Next Door, his car wasn’t just a place to sleep, it was how he earned a living, he said, delivering food through Uber Eats. He shakes his head in disbelief at where he was, and where he is now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a homeless guy that worked my way out of homelessness,” Kayode said. “Bought my own car. Now you've taken my car, taken my job and now you're giving me food stamps. It doesn't make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is it Unconstitutional to Impound a Car for Unpaid Tickets?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>An estimated half million cars a year in California are impounded, unclaimed and sold, according to Jude Pond of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. He said many of those cars belonged to poor people living in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pond helped file a lawsuit on Kayode's behalf to challenge the California law that allows cities to tow a car away if that car has five or more overdue parking tickets. Many cities follow that policy, and Pond said it’s unconstitutional in several ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government should not be allowed to take someone’s property without any notice and without a warrant, he said. That’s doubly true because these vehicles weren’t used in a crime, but were towed simply for financial reasons -- just to collect fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.'\u003ccite>Zev Yaroslavsky, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities do not issue warnings, outside of the fine print on a parking ticket, that they’re coming to impound a vehicle. Parking officers just show up and take it away. And in the case of the homeless who live in their cars, city officials are taking their temporary home from them, which raises the stakes above the taking of a vehicle, Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re hoping that this case sets the precedent that the city should not take people’s only asset -- in this case their car -- for the purpose of satisfying a debt, based on just outstanding parking tickets,\" Pond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, officers towing a car with a homeless occupant will contact the police department and social services to help that person get services, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, who responded by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be times when the [Homeless Outreach Team] will not be available to respond. If there is no urgency regarding the towing of the vehicle we will make an effort to delay the tow to allow services to respond,” Rose said. “We cannot completely avoid the removal of the vehicle as this would create an unintended exemption for vehicles that are in violation of city or state law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1200x885.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-1180x870.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-375x277.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/KayodeSmoking-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco on July 26, 2018. Kayode is suing the city, saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March — for having too many parking tickets. \u003ccite>(David Gorn/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Tipping Point Toward Homelessness\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Californians are living in their cars. Because losing those cars to impoundment can mean the loss of work and home, it can be a tipping point into a life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, having their car towed for overdue parking tickets is a major annoyance and life disruption. But for homeless people, it’s a permanent loss, because most of them cannot afford to recover their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The costs escalate quickly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenders must reimburse the tow charge, roughly $500. They also need to pay off their original tickets and the accrued fines on those tickets, which can be $1,000 or more. On top of all of that, it usually costs $71 for each day the car is stored at the tow yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kayode’s case, more than five months after his car was impounded, it would cost him more than $21,000 to get his car back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about $20,000 more than he paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ostensibly, the city is towing the car to collect a debt, but in many cases where cars are unclaimed and eventually sold, the city doesn’t make much money on the sale, if anything. That’s because the tow yard has first dibs on any cash collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the cities, though, it’s not about the money, according to UCLA political expert Zev Yaroslavsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's the credibility of the restrictions,” Yaroslavsky said. “If the restrictions were not enforced, then no one would comply with them. The reason you and I rush out to the parking meter when it’s about to expire, to put another quarter in there, is because we don’t want to pay $80 for the privilege of having overstayed our welcome by a minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11689602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11689602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/PreppingToTow-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The quickly escalating costs of having a vehicle impounded usually mean poor Californians can’t afford to get their cars back. Including original tickets, accrued fines and charges for towing and impounding, it would now cost Sean Kayode more than $21,000 to get his car back. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yaroslavsky spent four decades in local government in Los Angeles, most of it on the county Board of Supervisors. He said he understands why cities hold onto their impound power with both hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a local elected official I was never concerned about the revenue stream we were getting out of the parking,” Yaroslavsky said. “It was motivated by getting turnover in the limited parking spaces we had available at curbside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he said, there has to be a middle ground when towing cars from the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes absolutely no sense to take a homeless person's car, confiscating it, impounding it. If you take away their car, they’re going to be on the street. That’s not a benefit to society. Common sense has to be in play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, though, the middle ground is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless advocates say cities could make exceptions for extremely low-income citizens -- maybe let them hold onto the car, but pay off the tickets in installments.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">How a Transportation Safety Net Could Keep More People Off the Streets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689507/how-a-transportation-safety-net-could-keep-more-people-off-the-streets\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/MetroGoldLine-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some cities, including San Francisco, have a payment-plan program -- but nothing in place to return cars to the homeless or restrict impoundment of those cars in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal district court judge in San Francisco is expected to hear Kayode’s motion in September for a preliminary injunction to get his car back. A hearing on his lawsuit would be scheduled after a ruling on the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the preliminary injunction is granted and San Francisco has to return Kayode’s car, he will still technically owe that $21,000 in parking, towing and storage fees until the case is decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayode, who has been homeless for the past six years, looks back on the incident and its aftermath with a mixture of anger and despair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have my car, I have my phone. That's all I need. I can earn money,” Kayode said. “But right now, they are holding my car hostage. What I want to know is, does taking my car from me help the city budget in one way or another? Is my car going to make them or break them?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stops a moment, looks around the crowded and chaotic lobby of the homeless shelter he now calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am back in the same hole,” Kayode said. “And I don't have any way to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/californiadream/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Dream series\u003c/a> is a statewide media collaboration of CALmatters, KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the James Irvine Foundation and the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11660142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1867\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner.jpg 1867w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-160x44.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-800x219.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1020x280.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-1180x324.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-960x263.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-240x66.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-375x103.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/CADreamBanner-520x143.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1867px) 100vw, 1867px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11689446/thousands-of-californians-live-in-cars-will-this-mans-lawsuit-stop-cities-from-impounding-them","authors":["8656"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_1758","news_6266","news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4020","news_19904","news_1585","news_38","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_11689581","label":"source_news_11689446"},"news_10630314":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10630314","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10630314","score":null,"sort":[1438802741000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1438802741,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"One Man's Story of His Traffic Stop in Menlo Park","title":"One Man's Story of His Traffic Stop in Menlo Park","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Willert Waller was driving home from work late at night when a Menlo Park police officer stopped him for an expired registration tag. But Waller’s license had been suspended years back, because of an unpaid traffic ticket and unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving with a revoked license is a misdemeanor in California, and that night, the officer ordered Waller’s 2007 blue Cadillac towed and held for 30 days at an impound lot. As it turned out, the car was held for 16 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller, who is African-American, believes he was stopped in part because of his race, and that the officer searched him and his vehicle without probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer-involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logs from the Menlo Park Police Department confirm the impound of Waller's vehicle. Police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"JpMANAUoO6qMxP1t352jlrGhsdClZEZA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos are 17 percent of Menlo Park's population, while African-Americans are 4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We couldn’t confirm with the officer who stopped Waller exactly what happened during that traffic stop. However, Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Waller’s account of what happened here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217816911\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10630314 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10630314","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":310,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":13},"modified":1438814033,"excerpt":"Willert Waller was driving late at night when a police officer stopped him for expired registration.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Willert Waller was driving late at night when a police officer stopped him for expired registration.","title":"One Man's Story of His Traffic Stop in Menlo Park | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"One Man's Story of His Traffic Stop in Menlo Park","datePublished":"2015-08-05T12:25:41-07:00","dateModified":"2015-08-05T15:33:53-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park","status":"publish","path":"/news/10630314/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Willert Waller was driving home from work late at night when a Menlo Park police officer stopped him for an expired registration tag. But Waller’s license had been suspended years back, because of an unpaid traffic ticket and unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving with a revoked license is a misdemeanor in California, and that night, the officer ordered Waller’s 2007 blue Cadillac towed and held for 30 days at an impound lot. As it turned out, the car was held for 16 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller, who is African-American, believes he was stopped in part because of his race, and that the officer searched him and his vehicle without probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer-involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logs from the Menlo Park Police Department confirm the impound of Waller's vehicle. Police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos are 17 percent of Menlo Park's population, while African-Americans are 4 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We couldn’t confirm with the officer who stopped Waller exactly what happened during that traffic stop. However, Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to Waller’s account of what happened here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217816911&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217816911'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10630314/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_480","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_10631261","label":"news_6944"},"news_10566848":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10566848","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10566848","score":null,"sort":[1438794022000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1438794022,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","title":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Rene Macedo Nolasco, a night shift worker, was driving home late at night on May 2 from his job at the Tesla Motors plant in Fremont when he noticed flashing lights in his rearview mirror. Twenty minutes later, a Menlo Park police officer had cited him for driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor. His blue 2006 Audi, which he had purchased a few days before for $6,000, was towed to an impound lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco could have reclaimed his car in 30 days — if he'd had the money to cover the $60 to $80 daily tow yard storage charges, plus other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to get it out from the impound lot because it’s too much money,” said Macedo Nolasco, 27, a father of two. The minimum amount he would have had to pay is $2,300, more than a third of the Audi’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police citations and vehicle impounds for driving with a suspended license nearly tripled from 2008 to 2014, making this misdemeanor the top crime in the city, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of data from the Police Department. Many impounded cars are never recovered by owners, according to interviews with drivers and supervisors at towing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of citations and impounds occurred on the east side of the city, where most of the regional commuter traffic zooms through. But police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they are not targeting minorities. They attribute the steady rise in incidents to more policing aimed at responding to residents worried about safety, and point to a reduction in violent crime and traffic accidents last year as proof that the strategy is working. Drivers who have been cited say the rules and police attention make their lives harder and are unfairly resulting in stops and citations against Latinos and African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco’s troubles began over seven years ago, when he gambled on driving with an expired registration and lost. Then he got other traffic citations that he couldn’t afford to pay, so his license was suspended. He could have taken the bus to work, but the trip takes over an hour, so he gambled again and kept driving — until that stop in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he usually takes the bus and relies on his mom to pick him up at 4 a.m. when his shift ends. She recently loaned him her van so that he could make the 17-mile trip to work, praying that he wouldn’t be stopped and get her car towed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very stressful. It affects the whole family,” said his mother, Olga Nolasco, a house cleaner who just last year also saw her daughter Janet’s car get impounded because of a revoked license. “It’s not fair that they take their cars away. How are they going to get to work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the suspended license citations in Menlo Park, 71 percent resulted in police officers impounding the driver’s vehicle for the statutory 30-day period, according to police data from more than seven years, from 2008 to April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUFeUBHeZdA&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many drivers lose their cars permanently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impound costs in Menlo Park and in other Bay Area cities, such as San Francisco and San Jose, are significantly higher than in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, and sometimes add up to more than the car is worth, according to interviews and research into impound policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than half of the cars impounded for 30 days are picked up by owners and the numbers of owners retrieving their vehicles are significantly down from 2008, according to managers at three towing companies working with Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the cars that we tow for Menlo Park police get left and never get picked up,” said Jeff from Ed’s Cradle and Tow in Mountain View, who declined to give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towers statewide are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their cars after a 30-day impound, said Quinn Piening, chairman of the California Tow Truck Association Greater Bay Area Chapter. Piening believes drivers with serial suspended license citations in particular opt out of paying for impound costs and surrender their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go and buy another cheap vehicle and just drive it,” Piening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles left in the impound lots are sold by towing companies at auctions or to a junkyard. The lien sale proceeds go to cover the amount these companies charge for towing and daily storage. If the sale isn’t enough to cover that cost, the registered owners may lose their vehicle and still be on the hook for the rest of the tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towing companies have a tough time recovering any remaining debt after a lien sale, said Piening, and as a result, his company — Central Towing & Transport — and others he knows of are not profiting as much as they used to from these tows six years ago. Contributing to lower profits is a drop in the total number of tows ordered by police for other violations in the five cities his company works with, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tow companies are not getting rich in this business by any stretch of doing law enforcement work,” Piening said. “When we were towing 30-day impounds and the vehicles were valued at $5,000, that was one thing. But today we are towing vehicles that are valued under $1,000 and you can’t find people to buy them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others believe that state law on impounds benefits tow yards at the expense of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a good set of laws? Does it make sense from a public policy standpoint? Is it abused by people running tow yards?” asked Donald W. Cook, a Los Angeles-based attorney who is challenging the 30-day impound policy for unlicensed drivers in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa and other California cities. “The only answer is, of course, it’s abused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he is seeking a court order to make California release statewide records for vehicles impounded for 30 days, which are included in the Department of Justice Stolen Vehicle System database. Cook likens these types of impounds to “stealing people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 30-day impound statute is used to victimize the people who are most vulnerable to it. Basically the poor, a large segment of which are illegals,” added Cook, referring to undocumented drivers. “Many of them can’t afford it. They lose their vehicle and get nothing for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not track relevant towing data, such as the reason cars end up at lien sale auctions, the local agency that ordered the impound in the first place or the ethnicity of drivers — making it difficult to estimate the ethnic makeup of license suspensions. The City of Menlo Park declined to disclose how many of those vehicles were retrieved by owners or more information about the drivers, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But publicly available police logs from the last two months suggest these citations and impounds disproportionately impact minorities driving in Menlo Park: 68 percent were Latino, while 16 percent were African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race, but has everything to do with income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini said low-income drivers often come to the attention of officers because of mechanical failures of their cars, such as a broken tail light or excessive exhaust. They are also more likely than affluent drivers to have the DMV suspend their license, when they fail to appear in court or don’t pay traffic tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the original amounts of traffic tickets can double or triple because of various added-on fees, penalties and other mandatory payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ticket with a $100 base fine, such as failure to carry proof of auto insurance, costs $490 after fees and assessments. The price jumps to $730, plus other court fees, if the driver misses the initial deadline to pay the ticket, according to the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules by the Judicial Council of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many low-income drivers are unable to pay such fines. A recent survey by the Federal Reserve found that the majority of Americans with incomes of less than $40,000 a year would struggle to pay an emergency expense of $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-income and minority drivers hit the hardest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, over 4 million people have their driver’s licenses suspended because they can’t afford to pay a traffic ticket or miss a court deadline, according to a recent report by the East Bay Community Law Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and other groups. This number excludes license suspensions because of driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing cost of traffic tickets and the closing of court doors to drivers who miss a deadline are contributing to an explosion in the number of drivers whose licenses are revoked, according to the report. Some courts may have required full payment of a ticket before scheduling a court date, said Teresa Ruano, spokeswoman for the Judicial Council of California, which sets policy for the statewide court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address rising concerns about access to justice, the council issued a new rule in June that allows drivers to fight a ticket in court without first having to deposit the full amount of the ticket. This policy change, which took effect immediately, does not apply to drivers who already missed a court deadline to appear or pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.” The Legislature approved in June a traffic amnesty program proposed by Brown that would help some drivers regain their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is urgent as police citations and vehicle impounds for suspended licenses are hitting record numbers throughout the state, said Elisa Della-Piana, co-author of the report “Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California.” After the report was published in April, Della-Piana’s organization was contacted by people reporting more impounds in various cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happens disproportionately to people of color,” said Della-Piana, who is director of programs at the East Bay Community Law Center. She cited San Diego Police Department statistics showing that African-American and Latino drivers were stopped and searched at a higher rate than white drivers in 2014. “There’s clearly racial bias in traffic stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a driver’s license suspended and the potential loss of a vehicle because of an impound hurts the livelihood of individuals, forcing some families into welfare, Della-Piana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t keep a job because the job requires them to drive,” Della-Piana said. “We see person after person who has an active job offer that they can’t take because they don’t have a driver’s license just because they couldn’t afford to pay a traffic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, the sister of driver Rene Macedo Nolasco, missed her court date for an unpaid speeding ticket and had her license suspended. Last year, a Menlo Park police officer stopped her for failing to use a turn signal, and then cited her for driving while on a revoked license. He impounded her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I was breaking the law. But it was just driving home,” said Campos, an unemployed mother of two boys. “I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t on drugs. And to basically get my whole life turned around in one split second. … I mean, don’t make the law so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos and her husband, a construction worker, cobbled the thousands of dollars needed to retrieve their impounded car. But the couple can’t afford to pay additional fees to get her license reinstated, which she says ballooned to $2,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she can’t legally drive, her options for finding employment are limited to minimum-wage jobs at a Walgreens and Safeway that are walking distance from her Hayward home. That in turn, dampens her prospects for earning enough money to pay for her driver’s license fines, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely overwhelming,” said Campos, adding that she has struggled with depression after losing her license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alcohol-related accidents spur seizures and impound law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1995, police officers lacked the authority to seize and impound the vehicles of motorists driving with a suspended license. Public furor over alcohol-related accidents and deaths prompted the California Legislature to approve a bill that would change that. The ensuing Vehicle Code section 14602.6 authorizes officers to seize and impound for 30 days the vehicles of drivers whose licenses were revoked because of DUIs and other violations, including failure to appear in court and pay traffic fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But statewide and local figures show that the majority of suspensions and citations are not due to DUIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, less than a third of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to DUIs, according to the DMV. In Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, the Menlo Park police commander, recognizes that the rules for license suspensions and impounds have become “a vicious cycle” for drivers without the resources to pay fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, a former traffic officer, has seen firsthand the disproportionate impact citations can have on low-income drivers. His tickets came with a stern warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t ignore this. If you ignore this, bad things will happen because they’ll suspend your license, you’ll get a warrant, then you’ll be caught driving on a suspended license, then you’ll get arrested and then they’ll take your car,” Bertini recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini attributes the growing rise in incidents in Menlo Park to a renewed focus on public safety and traffic enforcement. After Facebook moved to the Belle Haven neighborhood on the east side of Menlo Park in 2011, the city held a series of meetings with Belle Haven residents concerned about gang shootings in the area and “people driving crazy,” Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2011 and 2013, all of Menlo Park’s 44 shootings — including three murders — were in Belle Haven or within a mile radius. But no violent gun incidents have occurred there or elsewhere in the city since January 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes are developing as Belle Haven, where most Latino and African-American residents live, is undergoing swift gentrification. As elsewhere in the region, housing costs continue to rise and low-income residents move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of drive-through traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park realized they had a serious problem with traffic accidents a few years back. The city ranked among the top 10 in the state for fatal and injury collisions when compared with cities of similar size in 2012, the most recent figures by the California Office of Traffic Safety show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the Menlo Park Police Department to reassign two officers to a previously defunct traffic unit in 2013, and to instruct patrol officers to do traffic enforcement with special focus on congested avenues on the east, as well as the less busy streets of Belle Haven, said Bertini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most of the 1,819 citations during the last seven years took place in this part of the city. Few occurred in the affluent neighborhoods on the west side of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the number of traffic collisions dropped 20 percent from the year before, Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we saturated that area with police officers, they are going to make more stops,” Bertini said. “That is due to the fact that residents have been fed up and they want their community to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willert Waller, who grew up in Belle Haven, has noticed the heightened police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like every other day coming home from work, I see somebody pulled over, no matter what time of the day,” said Waller, 48, adding that most of the people he sees police stop are Latino and African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 20, Waller was stopped because his registration tags had just expired. His license had been revoked years back because of an unpaid ticket for driving without insurance and, as he recalls, unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Hear Waller's Account of the Police Stop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>'I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I knew I shouldn’t have been driving with a suspended license, but I have to work,” said Waller, who said he became current on his child support payments before the incident. “This was just a real big inconvenience to have that vehicle towed like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller borrowed money from his mother, who recently retired, to get his driver’s license reinstated after paying $2,612 in late fines to the court. Owners who pay the entirety of their fines may regain their licenses and, in turn, get their cars out of the impound lot before 30 days, avoiding potentially hundreds of dollars in storage fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller’s car, a 2007 Cadillac, was in the tow lot for just 16 days. Still, he paid $1,280 in towing and storage fees to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is making the profit out of low-income people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Towing and storage prices are a statewide patchwork\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park fees are comparable to those of other Bay Area cities but not to other areas of California. If Waller had been cited in Los Angeles he would have paid in towing and storage fees $790 for the same period of time — about 40 percent less than what he paid after being towed in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says that rates are “generally established by an agreement between the law enforcement agency requesting the tow and the towing company.” That results in a patchy map of towing and vehicle storage fees, as rates vary dramatically throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are benefiting the tow yards with the statute that requires a 30-day impound, why isn’t the state regulating the exorbitant rates? Why aren’t they uniform throughout the state?” asked Cynthia Anderson-Barker, a civil rights lawyer who started a legal clinic to halt police impounds of vehicles owned by immigrant drivers in the city of Maywood, near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, the initial tow fee ranges from $200 to $240, while daily storage costs go from $60 to $80 depending on the company that does the tow, said Sgt. Matthew Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, drivers with a suspended license citation, considered a misdemeanor that generally results in a “cite and release” arrest, must pay an additional $300 vehicle release fee to Menlo Park. That city fee also varies greatly throughout California. San Diego’s fee is $54, while Sacramento’s is $180, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega said that Menlo Park’s towing and storage prices are similar to the local California Highway Patrol fees. These range from $200 to $235 for the towing service, and $70 to $75 for daily storage, according to records from the Redwood City CHP Area Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP does not keep a readily available list of the fees charged by the towing companies it employs throughout the state, but local commanders in each of the 103 offices make sure the fees are “reasonable for the area,” said Officer Daniel Hill from the California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pick the average of those rates, and the outliers are cast off,” Hill said. The CHP does not charge an administrative fee to release impounded vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park contracts with 12 towing companies that pay the city $100 for each 30-day tow the police orders. To sell a vehicle, these companies must first pay for a lien sale process fee of $70 or more, and auction sale costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are breaking even, maybe losing a little with the 30-day holds,” said Jamie from Redwood Auto, who declined to give his last name. “More than 50 percent of those cars go to the junkyard. These cars are in such bad shape … that’s usually what gets them pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junkyard pays about $200 per car, said Jamie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the vehicles that will be auctioned off or sold to a junkyard is a minivan owned by a mother of five who earns about $1,600 a month working at a dry cleaners. Maria, who asked that her last name not be used because of her immigration status, paid $2,000 for her 2013 Ford Windstar two years ago. Now, she can’t afford to get it back from the impound lot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, while Maria drove with her 11-year old son near their home in Belle Haven, Menlo Park police pulled her over for an expired vehicle registration and then cited her for driving with a suspended license, Maria said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I made a mistake,” said Maria in Spanish. “But I don’t think it’s fair that they took my van away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has never held a California driver’s license, but her privilege to drive was still revoked if she hadn’t paid for previous traffic tickets, said Bertini. She could retrieve her vehicle from the tow yard if someone else who does have a valid California driver’s license acts as her agent, said Hill, the spokesman for the CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2015, Maria wouldn’t have been eligible for a California driver’s license. But now the state will issue licenses to unauthorized immigrants. Maria has been paying installments on her traffic fines for months. She still owes $350 but had hoped to pay the final amount so that she can get a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since her vehicle was towed and she owes more money, that may never happen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor and Legislature push for changes \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Legislature approved the governor's plan for traffic debt amnesty program. It will allow drivers to get their license reinstated if they sign up to pay half of the amount they owe in fines for minor traffic infractions they received before 2013. The program could take effect as soon as Oct. 1, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense from a fiscal standpoint and a public policy standpoint,” Palmer said. “It is an opportunity for individuals to get their licenses back and that may be the one thing that gets them to either a paying job or a better-paying job.”\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10566848 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10566848","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license/","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":4108,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":97},"modified":1438813489,"excerpt":"With citations and vehicle impounds tripling, driving with a suspended license is Menlo Park's top crime.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"With citations and vehicle impounds tripling, driving with a suspended license is Menlo Park's top crime.","title":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Menlo Park, Many Lose Cars After Driving with Suspended License","datePublished":"2015-08-05T10:00:22-07:00","dateModified":"2015-08-05T15:24:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"http://peninsulapress.com/2015/06/17/driving-suspended-license-top-crime-in-menlo-park-california/","customPermalink":"2015/06/17/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license/","source":"Peninsula Press","path":"/news/10566848/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Rene Macedo Nolasco, a night shift worker, was driving home late at night on May 2 from his job at the Tesla Motors plant in Fremont when he noticed flashing lights in his rearview mirror. Twenty minutes later, a Menlo Park police officer had cited him for driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor. His blue 2006 Audi, which he had purchased a few days before for $6,000, was towed to an impound lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco could have reclaimed his car in 30 days — if he'd had the money to cover the $60 to $80 daily tow yard storage charges, plus other fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not going to get it out from the impound lot because it’s too much money,” said Macedo Nolasco, 27, a father of two. The minimum amount he would have had to pay is $2,300, more than a third of the Audi’s value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217925814'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police citations and vehicle impounds for driving with a suspended license nearly tripled from 2008 to 2014, making this misdemeanor the top crime in the city, according to a Peninsula Press analysis of data from the Police Department. Many impounded cars are never recovered by owners, according to interviews with drivers and supervisors at towing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of citations and impounds occurred on the east side of the city, where most of the regional commuter traffic zooms through. But police data also show that seven out of 10 drivers cited for a suspended license over a four-month time period were Latino or African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they are not targeting minorities. They attribute the steady rise in incidents to more policing aimed at responding to residents worried about safety, and point to a reduction in violent crime and traffic accidents last year as proof that the strategy is working. Drivers who have been cited say the rules and police attention make their lives harder and are unfairly resulting in stops and citations against Latinos and African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macedo Nolasco’s troubles began over seven years ago, when he gambled on driving with an expired registration and lost. Then he got other traffic citations that he couldn’t afford to pay, so his license was suspended. He could have taken the bus to work, but the trip takes over an hour, so he gambled again and kept driving — until that stop in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he usually takes the bus and relies on his mom to pick him up at 4 a.m. when his shift ends. She recently loaned him her van so that he could make the 17-mile trip to work, praying that he wouldn’t be stopped and get her car towed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very stressful. It affects the whole family,” said his mother, Olga Nolasco, a house cleaner who just last year also saw her daughter Janet’s car get impounded because of a revoked license. “It’s not fair that they take their cars away. How are they going to get to work?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the suspended license citations in Menlo Park, 71 percent resulted in police officers impounding the driver’s vehicle for the statutory 30-day period, according to police data from more than seven years, from 2008 to April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OUFeUBHeZdA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OUFeUBHeZdA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many drivers lose their cars permanently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impound costs in Menlo Park and in other Bay Area cities, such as San Francisco and San Jose, are significantly higher than in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego, and sometimes add up to more than the car is worth, according to interviews and research into impound policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than half of the cars impounded for 30 days are picked up by owners and the numbers of owners retrieving their vehicles are significantly down from 2008, according to managers at three towing companies working with Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the cars that we tow for Menlo Park police get left and never get picked up,” said Jeff from Ed’s Cradle and Tow in Mountain View, who declined to give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towers statewide are seeing a big drop in the number of owners retrieving their cars after a 30-day impound, said Quinn Piening, chairman of the California Tow Truck Association Greater Bay Area Chapter. Piening believes drivers with serial suspended license citations in particular opt out of paying for impound costs and surrender their cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go and buy another cheap vehicle and just drive it,” Piening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicles left in the impound lots are sold by towing companies at auctions or to a junkyard. The lien sale proceeds go to cover the amount these companies charge for towing and daily storage. If the sale isn’t enough to cover that cost, the registered owners may lose their vehicle and still be on the hook for the rest of the tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Towing companies have a tough time recovering any remaining debt after a lien sale, said Piening, and as a result, his company — Central Towing & Transport — and others he knows of are not profiting as much as they used to from these tows six years ago. Contributing to lower profits is a drop in the total number of tows ordered by police for other violations in the five cities his company works with, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tow companies are not getting rich in this business by any stretch of doing law enforcement work,” Piening said. “When we were towing 30-day impounds and the vehicles were valued at $5,000, that was one thing. But today we are towing vehicles that are valued under $1,000 and you can’t find people to buy them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, others believe that state law on impounds benefits tow yards at the expense of the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it a good set of laws? Does it make sense from a public policy standpoint? Is it abused by people running tow yards?” asked Donald W. Cook, a Los Angeles-based attorney who is challenging the 30-day impound policy for unlicensed drivers in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa and other California cities. “The only answer is, of course, it’s abused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook said he is seeking a court order to make California release statewide records for vehicles impounded for 30 days, which are included in the Department of Justice Stolen Vehicle System database. Cook likens these types of impounds to “stealing people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This 30-day impound statute is used to victimize the people who are most vulnerable to it. Basically the poor, a large segment of which are illegals,” added Cook, referring to undocumented drivers. “Many of them can’t afford it. They lose their vehicle and get nothing for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Motor Vehicles does not track relevant towing data, such as the reason cars end up at lien sale auctions, the local agency that ordered the impound in the first place or the ethnicity of drivers — making it difficult to estimate the ethnic makeup of license suspensions. The City of Menlo Park declined to disclose how many of those vehicles were retrieved by owners or more information about the drivers, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But publicly available police logs from the last two months suggest these citations and impounds disproportionately impact minorities driving in Menlo Park: 68 percent were Latino, while 16 percent were African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park police Cmdr. Dave Bertini believes the issue has nothing to do with race, but has everything to do with income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If anybody were to suggest that this is going on for racial reasons, I think that’s asinine and bordering on slanderous,” said Bertini, who has been with the department since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini said low-income drivers often come to the attention of officers because of mechanical failures of their cars, such as a broken tail light or excessive exhaust. They are also more likely than affluent drivers to have the DMV suspend their license, when they fail to appear in court or don’t pay traffic tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the original amounts of traffic tickets can double or triple because of various added-on fees, penalties and other mandatory payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ticket with a $100 base fine, such as failure to carry proof of auto insurance, costs $490 after fees and assessments. The price jumps to $730, plus other court fees, if the driver misses the initial deadline to pay the ticket, according to the Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules by the Judicial Council of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many low-income drivers are unable to pay such fines. A recent survey by the Federal Reserve found that the majority of Americans with incomes of less than $40,000 a year would struggle to pay an emergency expense of $400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, uncollected court-ordered debt for traffic and criminal offenses adds up to an estimated $10.2 billion, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the California courts notify the DMV of two or more failures to pay or appear in court violations, the DMV suspends the driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Low-income and minority drivers hit the hardest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, over 4 million people have their driver’s licenses suspended because they can’t afford to pay a traffic ticket or miss a court deadline, according to a recent report by the East Bay Community Law Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and other groups. This number excludes license suspensions because of driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increasing cost of traffic tickets and the closing of court doors to drivers who miss a deadline are contributing to an explosion in the number of drivers whose licenses are revoked, according to the report. Some courts may have required full payment of a ticket before scheduling a court date, said Teresa Ruano, spokeswoman for the Judicial Council of California, which sets policy for the statewide court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address rising concerns about access to justice, the council issued a new rule in June that allows drivers to fight a ticket in court without first having to deposit the full amount of the ticket. This policy change, which took effect immediately, does not apply to drivers who already missed a court deadline to appear or pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown has characterized the system that leads to drivers losing their licenses because they can’t pay fines or fail to appear in court as a “hellhole of desperation.” The Legislature approved in June a traffic amnesty program proposed by Brown that would help some drivers regain their licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is urgent as police citations and vehicle impounds for suspended licenses are hitting record numbers throughout the state, said Elisa Della-Piana, co-author of the report “Not Just a Ferguson Problem, How Traffic Courts Drive Inequality in California.” After the report was published in April, Della-Piana’s organization was contacted by people reporting more impounds in various cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It happens disproportionately to people of color,” said Della-Piana, who is director of programs at the East Bay Community Law Center. She cited San Diego Police Department statistics showing that African-American and Latino drivers were stopped and searched at a higher rate than white drivers in 2014. “There’s clearly racial bias in traffic stops,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a driver’s license suspended and the potential loss of a vehicle because of an impound hurts the livelihood of individuals, forcing some families into welfare, Della-Piana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t keep a job because the job requires them to drive,” Della-Piana said. “We see person after person who has an active job offer that they can’t take because they don’t have a driver’s license just because they couldn’t afford to pay a traffic ticket.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cycle of debt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Campos, the sister of driver Rene Macedo Nolasco, missed her court date for an unpaid speeding ticket and had her license suspended. Last year, a Menlo Park police officer stopped her for failing to use a turn signal, and then cited her for driving while on a revoked license. He impounded her vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I was breaking the law. But it was just driving home,” said Campos, an unemployed mother of two boys. “I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t on drugs. And to basically get my whole life turned around in one split second. … I mean, don’t make the law so hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos and her husband, a construction worker, cobbled the thousands of dollars needed to retrieve their impounded car. But the couple can’t afford to pay additional fees to get her license reinstated, which she says ballooned to $2,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she can’t legally drive, her options for finding employment are limited to minimum-wage jobs at a Walgreens and Safeway that are walking distance from her Hayward home. That in turn, dampens her prospects for earning enough money to pay for her driver’s license fines, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely overwhelming,” said Campos, adding that she has struggled with depression after losing her license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alcohol-related accidents spur seizures and impound law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1995, police officers lacked the authority to seize and impound the vehicles of motorists driving with a suspended license. Public furor over alcohol-related accidents and deaths prompted the California Legislature to approve a bill that would change that. The ensuing Vehicle Code section 14602.6 authorizes officers to seize and impound for 30 days the vehicles of drivers whose licenses were revoked because of DUIs and other violations, including failure to appear in court and pay traffic fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But statewide and local figures show that the majority of suspensions and citations are not due to DUIs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, less than a third of the 439,750 court-ordered suspensions in 2014 were related to DUIs, according to the DMV. In Menlo Park, DUI offenses are related to just 15 percent of the suspended license citations since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, the Menlo Park police commander, recognizes that the rules for license suspensions and impounds have become “a vicious cycle” for drivers without the resources to pay fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini, a former traffic officer, has seen firsthand the disproportionate impact citations can have on low-income drivers. His tickets came with a stern warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t ignore this. If you ignore this, bad things will happen because they’ll suspend your license, you’ll get a warrant, then you’ll be caught driving on a suspended license, then you’ll get arrested and then they’ll take your car,” Bertini recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bertini attributes the growing rise in incidents in Menlo Park to a renewed focus on public safety and traffic enforcement. After Facebook moved to the Belle Haven neighborhood on the east side of Menlo Park in 2011, the city held a series of meetings with Belle Haven residents concerned about gang shootings in the area and “people driving crazy,” Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2011 and 2013, all of Menlo Park’s 44 shootings — including three murders — were in Belle Haven or within a mile radius. But no violent gun incidents have occurred there or elsewhere in the city since January 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes are developing as Belle Haven, where most Latino and African-American residents live, is undergoing swift gentrification. As elsewhere in the region, housing costs continue to rise and low-income residents move out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City of drive-through traffic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park realized they had a serious problem with traffic accidents a few years back. The city ranked among the top 10 in the state for fatal and injury collisions when compared with cities of similar size in 2012, the most recent figures by the California Office of Traffic Safety show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That prompted the Menlo Park Police Department to reassign two officers to a previously defunct traffic unit in 2013, and to instruct patrol officers to do traffic enforcement with special focus on congested avenues on the east, as well as the less busy streets of Belle Haven, said Bertini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, most of the 1,819 citations during the last seven years took place in this part of the city. Few occurred in the affluent neighborhoods on the west side of Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the number of traffic collisions dropped 20 percent from the year before, Bertini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we saturated that area with police officers, they are going to make more stops,” Bertini said. “That is due to the fact that residents have been fed up and they want their community to be safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willert Waller, who grew up in Belle Haven, has noticed the heightened police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like every other day coming home from work, I see somebody pulled over, no matter what time of the day,” said Waller, 48, adding that most of the people he sees police stop are Latino and African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 20, Waller was stopped because his registration tags had just expired. His license had been revoked years back because of an unpaid ticket for driving without insurance and, as he recalls, unpaid child support.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/3090392251_b0c3016b94_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/05/one-mans-story-of-his-traffic-stop-in-menlo-park\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>Hear Waller's Account of the Police Stop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>'I felt like he was pushing me,” says Waller. “With all these officer involved shootings and killings, I know right from wrong.'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I knew I shouldn’t have been driving with a suspended license, but I have to work,” said Waller, who said he became current on his child support payments before the incident. “This was just a real big inconvenience to have that vehicle towed like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller borrowed money from his mother, who recently retired, to get his driver’s license reinstated after paying $2,612 in late fines to the court. Owners who pay the entirety of their fines may regain their licenses and, in turn, get their cars out of the impound lot before 30 days, avoiding potentially hundreds of dollars in storage fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waller’s car, a 2007 Cadillac, was in the tow lot for just 16 days. Still, he paid $1,280 in towing and storage fees to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is making the profit out of low-income people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Towing and storage prices are a statewide patchwork\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park fees are comparable to those of other Bay Area cities but not to other areas of California. If Waller had been cited in Los Angeles he would have paid in towing and storage fees $790 for the same period of time — about 40 percent less than what he paid after being towed in Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV says that rates are “generally established by an agreement between the law enforcement agency requesting the tow and the towing company.” That results in a patchy map of towing and vehicle storage fees, as rates vary dramatically throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are benefiting the tow yards with the statute that requires a 30-day impound, why isn’t the state regulating the exorbitant rates? Why aren’t they uniform throughout the state?” asked Cynthia Anderson-Barker, a civil rights lawyer who started a legal clinic to halt police impounds of vehicles owned by immigrant drivers in the city of Maywood, near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Menlo Park, the initial tow fee ranges from $200 to $240, while daily storage costs go from $60 to $80 depending on the company that does the tow, said Sgt. Matthew Ortega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, drivers with a suspended license citation, considered a misdemeanor that generally results in a “cite and release” arrest, must pay an additional $300 vehicle release fee to Menlo Park. That city fee also varies greatly throughout California. San Diego’s fee is $54, while Sacramento’s is $180, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortega said that Menlo Park’s towing and storage prices are similar to the local California Highway Patrol fees. These range from $200 to $235 for the towing service, and $70 to $75 for daily storage, according to records from the Redwood City CHP Area Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP does not keep a readily available list of the fees charged by the towing companies it employs throughout the state, but local commanders in each of the 103 offices make sure the fees are “reasonable for the area,” said Officer Daniel Hill from the California Highway Patrol, Golden Gate Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pick the average of those rates, and the outliers are cast off,” Hill said. The CHP does not charge an administrative fee to release impounded vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park contracts with 12 towing companies that pay the city $100 for each 30-day tow the police orders. To sell a vehicle, these companies must first pay for a lien sale process fee of $70 or more, and auction sale costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are breaking even, maybe losing a little with the 30-day holds,” said Jamie from Redwood Auto, who declined to give his last name. “More than 50 percent of those cars go to the junkyard. These cars are in such bad shape … that’s usually what gets them pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The junkyard pays about $200 per car, said Jamie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the vehicles that will be auctioned off or sold to a junkyard is a minivan owned by a mother of five who earns about $1,600 a month working at a dry cleaners. Maria, who asked that her last name not be used because of her immigration status, paid $2,000 for her 2013 Ford Windstar two years ago. Now, she can’t afford to get it back from the impound lot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, while Maria drove with her 11-year old son near their home in Belle Haven, Menlo Park police pulled her over for an expired vehicle registration and then cited her for driving with a suspended license, Maria said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I made a mistake,” said Maria in Spanish. “But I don’t think it’s fair that they took my van away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has never held a California driver’s license, but her privilege to drive was still revoked if she hadn’t paid for previous traffic tickets, said Bertini. She could retrieve her vehicle from the tow yard if someone else who does have a valid California driver’s license acts as her agent, said Hill, the spokesman for the CHP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before 2015, Maria wouldn’t have been eligible for a California driver’s license. But now the state will issue licenses to unauthorized immigrants. Maria has been paying installments on her traffic fines for months. She still owes $350 but had hoped to pay the final amount so that she can get a license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since her vehicle was towed and she owes more money, that may never happen, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Governor and Legislature push for changes \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, the Legislature approved the governor's plan for traffic debt amnesty program. It will allow drivers to get their license reinstated if they sign up to pay half of the amount they owe in fines for minor traffic infractions they received before 2013. The program could take effect as soon as Oct. 1, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes sense from a fiscal standpoint and a public policy standpoint,” Palmer said. “It is an opportunity for individuals to get their licenses back and that may be the one thing that gets them to either a paying job or a better-paying job.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10566848/in-menlo-park-many-lose-cars-after-driving-with-suspended-license","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_17940","news_480","news_18173"],"affiliates":["news_5933"],"featImg":"news_10566863","label":"source_news_10566848"},"news_10575736":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10575736","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"10575736","score":null,"sort":[1435192409000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news","term":6944},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1435192409,"format":"standard","disqusTitle":"San Francisco Stolen Car Towing Fees Would Drop Under New Proposal","title":"San Francisco Stolen Car Towing Fees Would Drop Under New Proposal","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","content":"\u003cp>Some insult could drop off the injury of having a car stolen and then recovered in San Francisco, under a new tow fee scheme before the city's Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's current system allows a car-theft victim 20 minutes to get his or her car from the street where police find it. If they can't get there, car owners are charged close to $500, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. That charge includes a $263 SFMTA towing fee and a $220.75 contractor's towing fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the unfortunate theft victim gets a four-hour window before the contractor's storage fee starts charging -- that's $57.25 for the first day and $66.75 for each day after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re already victimized once when your car is stolen, and then to be effectively victimized again, it just struck me as unfair,\" said the proposal's author, Supervisor Scott Wiener. \"It’s also an economic justice issue because for people who are lower income, their car might be their lifeline to get to work, and if they can’t afford to get their car out of the towing yard, that’s a huge hardship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">Why is Towing in S.F. So Expensive?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-10575939 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-400x296.jpg\" alt=\"mini_tow2\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-1180x874.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-960x711.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learn more about San Francisco's pricy towing from KQED's listener-driven series, Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicb.org/newsroom/nicb_campaigns/hot_spots/hot-spots-2014\" target=\"_blank\">National Insurance Crime Bureau awarded\u003c/a> the Bay Area the dubious distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/watch-my-car-san-francisco-has-greatest-risk-for-auto-thefts\" target=\"_blank\">highest auto theft rate\u003c/a> in the nation Tuesday, with 29,093 reported thefts in 2014. Any of those cars recovered by San Francisco police would likely be wrapped into the city's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">infamously high towing fees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says some of them are unavoidable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cost of doing business is more expensive in San Francisco,\" Wiener said, citing high labor and rent costs for the city's towing vendor, Auto Return. \"It’s not surprising that there are higher costs, which leads to higher charges. We should always be looking at ways that we can have a system that has enough of a disincentive so that people avoid having their cars towed, but isn’t punitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the less punitive scheme before the Board of Supervisors. The proposed eight-month extension to the city's contract with Auto Return would waive all of the initial fees for San Francisco residents. Residents of other cities, who may have had their cars stolen elsewhere and dumped in San Francisco, would pay just $133 -- half of the city's towing fee -- and the rest would be waived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the city would get a full 48-hour grace period before the new $68.25 daily fee would start to accrue, and nonresidents would get 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would ideally like to see the window a little bit longer, a little bit more relief,\" Wiener said, \"but there are also revenue impacts to our transportation agency when we reduce fees, and so we’re trying to balance that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said the SFMTA expected to lose between $200,000 and $300,000 over the proposed eight-month contract extension -- not a huge hit for the agency's approximately $1 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will have to work to cover those costs, but it is something that we are working with the Board of Supervisors and Auto Return to implement,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the San Francisco Transit Riders Union said the group is generally against reductions to the MTA's budget that favor car owners, but the group does not know enough about the proposal to comment on it directly.\u003c/p>\n\n","disqusIdentifier":"10575736 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10575736","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/24/san-francisco-stolen-car-towing-fees-would-drop-under-new-proposal/","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":609,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1435192745,"excerpt":"Almost $500 in towing fees, added to the injury of a stolen car, could fall to zero for city residents.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Almost $500 in towing fees, added to the injury of a stolen car, could fall to zero for city residents.","title":"San Francisco Stolen Car Towing Fees Would Drop Under New Proposal | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco Stolen Car Towing Fees Would Drop Under New Proposal","datePublished":"2015-06-24T17:33:29-07:00","dateModified":"2015-06-24T17:39:05-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-francisco-stolen-car-towing-fees-would-drop-under-new-proposal","status":"publish","path":"/news/10575736/san-francisco-stolen-car-towing-fees-would-drop-under-new-proposal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Some insult could drop off the injury of having a car stolen and then recovered in San Francisco, under a new tow fee scheme before the city's Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's current system allows a car-theft victim 20 minutes to get his or her car from the street where police find it. If they can't get there, car owners are charged close to $500, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. That charge includes a $263 SFMTA towing fee and a $220.75 contractor's towing fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the unfortunate theft victim gets a four-hour window before the contractor's storage fee starts charging -- that's $57.25 for the first day and $66.75 for each day after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re already victimized once when your car is stolen, and then to be effectively victimized again, it just struck me as unfair,\" said the proposal's author, Supervisor Scott Wiener. \"It’s also an economic justice issue because for people who are lower income, their car might be their lifeline to get to work, and if they can’t afford to get their car out of the towing yard, that’s a huge hardship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/04/20/baycurious.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">Why is Towing in S.F. So Expensive?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-10575939 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-400x296.jpg\" alt=\"mini_tow2\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-400x296.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-800x593.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-1180x874.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2-960x711.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/mini_tow2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Learn more about San Francisco's pricy towing from KQED's listener-driven series, Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nicb.org/newsroom/nicb_campaigns/hot_spots/hot-spots-2014\" target=\"_blank\">National Insurance Crime Bureau awarded\u003c/a> the Bay Area the dubious distinction of having the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/watch-my-car-san-francisco-has-greatest-risk-for-auto-thefts\" target=\"_blank\">highest auto theft rate\u003c/a> in the nation Tuesday, with 29,093 reported thefts in 2014. Any of those cars recovered by San Francisco police would likely be wrapped into the city's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/why-is-towing-so-expensive-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">infamously high towing fees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says some of them are unavoidable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cost of doing business is more expensive in San Francisco,\" Wiener said, citing high labor and rent costs for the city's towing vendor, Auto Return. \"It’s not surprising that there are higher costs, which leads to higher charges. We should always be looking at ways that we can have a system that has enough of a disincentive so that people avoid having their cars towed, but isn’t punitive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the less punitive scheme before the Board of Supervisors. The proposed eight-month extension to the city's contract with Auto Return would waive all of the initial fees for San Francisco residents. Residents of other cities, who may have had their cars stolen elsewhere and dumped in San Francisco, would pay just $133 -- half of the city's towing fee -- and the rest would be waived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of the city would get a full 48-hour grace period before the new $68.25 daily fee would start to accrue, and nonresidents would get 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would ideally like to see the window a little bit longer, a little bit more relief,\" Wiener said, \"but there are also revenue impacts to our transportation agency when we reduce fees, and so we’re trying to balance that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said the SFMTA expected to lose between $200,000 and $300,000 over the proposed eight-month contract extension -- not a huge hit for the agency's approximately $1 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will have to work to cover those costs, but it is something that we are working with the Board of Supervisors and Auto Return to implement,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the San Francisco Transit Riders Union said the group is generally against reductions to the MTA's budget that favor car owners, but the group does not know enough about the proposal to comment on it directly.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10575736/san-francisco-stolen-car-towing-fees-would-drop-under-new-proposal","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_4096","news_18173"],"featImg":"news_10575949","label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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