Subject:
Re: Dear Sirs and Madams
Date:
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 12:39:19 -0500
From:
DL Information <dl-info@dot.state.nc.us>
Organization:
North Carolina Department of Transportation
To:
email@conradhubbard.com
References:
1
The Division does have a copy of the citation on file. As requested,
it is
being mailed to your Decatur, GA address.
North Carolina General Statute 20-24.1 requires the Division to indefinitely
suspend one's driving privilege for failure to appear in court or pay
fine
and cost as required by a citation. Our records reflect your
driving
privilege was indefinitely suspended November 23, 1990, based on your
failure to appear in court as required by a citation issued on 6/25/90
in
Halifax County. If you feel the Notice was sent to the Division
in error,
documentation to this effect from the Clerk of Court will be required
prior
to any adjustment to your driving record.
As the records now stand, your driving privilege maybe reinstated upon
compliance with the above-mentioned outstanding citation and payment
of the
required $25.00 restoration fee. This fee has no relation to
the fines and
penalties imposed by the court. The fee can be in the form of
a check or
money order made payable to NCDMV and sent to:
NCDMV
Driver License Section
1100 New Bern Ave
Raleigh, NC 27697
Conrad Hubbard wrote:
> As pertains to the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to hereby
> request all information pursuant to my file number 90CR005117.
>
> My current address is:[snip]
>
> After ten years since returning from a brief 6 month time living
in
> North Carolina to the state of Virgina and continuously receiving
a
> valid driver license during all of that period, I have moved to Georgia.
> In Georgia, apparently, some sort of bureaucratic error your Halifax
> County Courthouse and state DMV have perpetrated has resulted in
the
> imminent possibility that my license will be cancelled due to some
> unfounded judgement you have placed against me ten years ago.
>
> I spoke to the Halifax County Courthouse today, without any sort
of
> substantial success. They seem to have misplaced my payment of the
> single ticket I got during my entire stay in North Carolina, which
was
> for failing to get my moving vehicle weighed during my exodus from
the
> state. As I was ignorant of this particular law, I was obviously
greatly
> disappointed to be ticketed thus, but like any helpless victim of
the
> traffic court system, I paid my fine and went about my way.
>
> Unfortunately, also like any normal person, I do not happen to have
a
> receipt saved from ten years ago to prove this. Thus I must hereby
> request, pursuant to the freedom of information act, any and all
> information that the state may have saved regarding this accusation
of
> negligence on my part.
>
> It is my intent to put together a lawsuit in your civil courts for
the
> amount that would recompense me for my time spent trying to solve
the
> problems your state and county have created for me, for the long
> distance phone calls I have incurred getting information, and to
recover
> the already paid ticket and subsequent fees that resulted from your
> system's inability to keep up with its own past. I fully admit that
this
> endeavor will be hampered by my so far inability to come up with
a
> receipt from 10 years ago, but then I maintain that no normal person
> would have saved a document so small for such a long period when
they
> rightfully believed that they had correctly taken care of their legal
> responsibilities.
>
> I cannot believe that a state to which I once moved with such great
> anticipation and happiness would reach out to endanger my right to
drive
> to my job 10 years later. I used to enjoy the Outer Banks beaches
and
> visiting Raleigh. But this has left such a negative feeling in me
so
> strongly that I can only assure you that even my continued patronage
as
> a tourist will cease. You may get the $96 for this false accusation
of
> failure to pay an ancient ticket out of me a second time as I need
your
> state agencies' help to make sure my current license does not get
> suspended in Georgia, but your state government is likely to lose
a lot
> more than that over the course of my lifetime and that of any friends
> and family I manage to similarly convince of the folly of entrusting
> their safety to your obviously anarchic and archaic legal system
and its
> necessary enforcement arm on the highways.
>
> I promise that I will write to your state Governor and both Senators
and
> whichever representative handles Halifax County if I can find him.
The
> erratic and inexcusable behavior of your civil employees in the
> mishandling of my ancient case here has aggravated me immensely and
> still continues to do so. I have been given great reason to fear
that
> your system is purposely endangering my right to drive though I have
not
> resided in your state for 10 years. I am not sure why even the most
> polite requests I made to both your DMV and your Halifax County
> Courthouse were met with anything other than apathy and a "just pay
it
> again and be done with it" attitude, but this behavior is intolerable
> and ridiculous in the extreme.
>
> If you have any addresses or phone numbers or emails at which I might
be
> able to get some help solving this bureaucratic dilemna, I would
greatly
> appreciate them.
>
> If it seems like I am angry, I am. There is no anger like that of
those
> who legitimately feel like they have been wronged, and I do seriously
> feel like I have been inconvenienced immensely, rebilled for a fee
> already paid and threatened with loss of liberty to drive a motor
> vehicle by your agency's incompetence. I am sorry if anything I have
> said in this letter has been misdirected or insulting in any way.
It was
> not meant to be so. I am simply looking for someone who can help
me
> through what has become an absolute bureaucratic nightmare of
> misinformation and apathetic phone jockeys who could not care less
> apparently about helping you, much less even being polite.
>
> --
> Conrad Hubbard
> Editor of totem (The Roleplaying Game Journal)
> Author of PATHOS (A Collection of Poetry and Oddities)
> http://www.conradhubbard.com
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Conrad
Hubbard
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