disabled people’s associations denounce the automated verbalization system
Many people with disabilities have been unfairly verbalized since the establishment of the Lapi, in August 2022 in Toulouse. This automated system would not take disabled parking badges into account. Hundreds of motorists would pay the price.
The Lapi is an automated verbalization system by reading license plates. Very efficient and very rental, it would not take into account the badges affixed to the windshields by disabled people, thus verbalizing motorists who would normally benefit from free parking.
“It’s a way to lock people in their homes!”
The Handi-Social association considers itself “bond” to promote justice to assert the rights of people with disabilities.
It seems that the goal is to verbalize as many people as possible. Even if it is necessary to take the risk of verbalizing wrongly.
Odile Maurin, president of Handi-social and opposition municipal councilor
The association highlights the right to parking people with disabilities, recalling that most of them do not even have access to parking meters: often too high or very poorly represented. Hundreds of motorists would be concerned and would not dare to challenge the fines received by mail.
In a short video, Odile Maurin, president of the Handi-social association and municipal opposition councilor, demonstrates how difficult it is for people with disabilities to access certain parking meters.
UN first resort was filed on December 15 before the administrative court of Toulouse for “excess of power”. Through its lawyer, David Nabet-Martin, the association wishes to obtain the cancellation of the measure.
It was doubled on December 27 by a QPC, a priority question of constitutionality, before the Constitutional Council in order to request a “reserve of interpretation”.
To solve this problem of macaroon not taken into account by the Lapi, the town hall offers people with reduced mobility to declare a free ticket valid for 24 hours to benefit from free parking. For this it is necessary to have your vehicle referenced by providing the disabled person’s card, the gray card and the identity card with the town hall.
For associations for the defense of disabled people, these steps are considered too cumbersome when one already has to deal with numerous constraints on a daily basis.
These decisions interfere with our daily lives! Those who smoke are disconnected from the field!
Odile Maurin, Handi-social president and opposition municipal councilor
The Lapi is an automatic license plate reader. This device that brings together cameras that take pictures of vehicles located in the vicinity of the vehicle team of ASVP, public road surveillance agent. Character recognition software then identifies the plate numbers.