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Lightfoot outlines plan to ease punitive ticketing, towing and booting policy

JULY 24, 2019 | by Fran Spielman | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“Mayor Lori Lightfoot campaigned on a promise to bring equity to an overly punitive ticketing, towing and booting policy that has unfairly targeted minorities and forced thousands into bankruptcy. … The new policy falls far short of the mayor’s promise. … That may explain why Lightfoot claimed earlier this month that Chicago had become so ‘addicted’ to balancing its budget on the backs of those who could least afford to pay, it would take years to wean the city off that bad habit.”

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