XEROX Owns Denver’s Parking Violations Bureau, A Division of ACS.
I am a citizen of Denver, Colorado. I pay my taxes, I abide by the law, and I try to be a “good citizen”. A friend recently acquired my help to move an aquarium to his new place downtown Denver which in turn lead to a confusing pricy parking ticket. Upon further inspection of the ticket, I noticed the website was not a “.gov” but rather a “.com” website to pay the fine. Interesting, why would that be? A little bit of thinking and hours of research has left me outraged to what I found.
On the website Denvergov.org, under the parking violations tab, the third sentence made my stomach turn, “The Parking Violations Bureau, a division of ACS, contracts with the city to handle telephone calls, correspondence, payments and data entry of parking citations.” . (SOURCE: http://www.denvergov.org/CountyCourt/Divisions/Divisions4/tabid/383396/Default.aspx ).
A “division of ACS?”. That’s what a corporation may call a small sector of its business, such as Clear Channel Media a Division of CC HOLDINGS, INC.. But our parking meters, the ones we paid to place there on the streets are owned by our local government right? NOPE. ACS is a division of a much larger company with a very household name, which outsources government services such as parking violations, ticket cameras, speed cameras, and more. (source: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/29/2914.asp). ACS has even been charged for offered officers expensive gifts, such as prostitutes, sporting tickets, and travel, in exchange for recommending ACS for no bid speed camera ticket contracts worth $90 million.
WTF? No wonder there are parking tickets being issued at 3:32am. Denver does not handle the parking tickets? A much larger private company does, whose owner, XEROX, has become the largest recipient of Government outsourcing.
WAIT, YOU MEAN, WHEN I GO DOWN TO THE COURT HOUSE AND PAY MY PARKING TICKETS, I AM NOT PAYING DENVER, BUT XEROX? HOW CAN THAT BE? I WENT TO THE COURT HOUSE. I personally find it appalling that this is happening on property I, as a citizen, own such as and not limited to the parking meters, the courthouse, the jeeps the ticket Nazis drive, and more. No wonder ticket prices increase without warning, the second your time is up on a meter a ticket is issued, you can appeal the ticket but its never accepted. We all have been tricked into thinking this is our local government. I am furious.
Then it clicked. THE HALO CAMERAS ARE NOT FOR OUR PROTECTION, THEY ARE TO SEE WHAT TICKETS NEED TO BE ISSUDED TO INCREASE PROFIT. This is what our nation has become. I am sick of it.
