Toulouse: automated paid parking enforcement sued
Opposition municipal councilor and president of the Handisocial association, Odile Maurin sued the device for reading license plates by on-board cameras which has been in force since the start of the school year in Toulouse for the control of paid parking.
Opposition municipal councilor and president of the Handisocial association, Odile Maurin (municipalist group), who has regularly intervened against the automated license plate reading system (LAPI) which allows the control of paid parking, announced this Friday during the Toulouse city council launch two legal proceedings against the device. A device that “flouts the rights of people with disabilities”, she denounces.
The first procedure is an appeal before the administrative court which targets the deliberation of July 1 which activated the provisions for the disabled. The second is a priority question of constitutionality (QPC).
To benefit from the free admission to which they are entitled, people with disabilities must go to the parking meter to take a free ticket, use the Park Now application or register on a file. Actions which, in fact, represent so many obstacles, say the associations.
For his part, Emilion Esnault, deputy mayor in charge of security, reaffirmed that the procedures put in place in Toulouse “respected in all respects the recommendations of the National Commission for IT and Freedom and the Grouping of Transport Organizing Authorities.” When the device was introduced, the elected official had indicated that the control was subject to verification on the ground by an agent.
Since the start of the school year, two cars equipped with cameras have been circulating in Toulouse to check payment for parking in the streets of Toulouse.