Southland / A Roundup of Southern California News : School Tickets Urged
LOS ANGELES —
Members of the Los Angeles Unified School District Police Department are seeking authorization to begin issuing traffic tickets. “Our patrol officers see these violations and can’t do anything about it right now,” said Richard G. Keith, president of the school district’s Police Officers Assn. Nonetheless, district administrators say enforcing traffic laws should not be a duty of the school district’s 307 police officers. Keith said the tickets could generate more than $1 million annually in revenue.
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