Privacy Legislation Prevents City from Collecting Unpaid Fines

A glitch in new privacy laws may be preventing the City of Winnipeg, Canada from collecting unpaid parking tickets.

North Kildonan Coun. Mark Lubosch says the city used to rely on collection agencies to send out reminders to ticket scofflaws and, ultimately, to collect the fines.

But Lubosch says new federal privacy legislation prevents the city from passing along information such as names, addresses and licence-plate numbers to third parties for collection.

“Privacy legislation ? which is ultimately good legislation ? has a bit of a glitch in it, and it’s preventing the city, and I’m sure other organizations, from doing business the way they did in the past,” he says.

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