Oakland City Attorney John Russo is advising the city to refund some parking tickets issued last year when the city employed a double-standard for ticketing, the Trib reports. But Russo’s suggestion appears to fall short of correcting the unequal treatment of city residents by Oakland parking enforcement officers. That’s because the city attorney is only recommending that refunds be issued for people who got tickets during a two-week period last year, when in it appears that the city had employed an unfair parking ticket policy for more than three months.
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