Oakland parking ticket policy called ‘not fair’

Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer,  SFGate

Oakland parking officers were ordered to avoid enforcing neighborhood parking violations in two of the city’s wealthier neighborhoods but told to continue enforcing the same violations in the rest of the city, according to a city memo obtained by The Chronicle.

The July order is corroborated by interviews with three parking officers, who said they and their colleagues had complained about what they deemed a discriminatory practice since it began last summer – to no avail.

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Kind of makes us wonder if the same principle is at work in SF with the meters