The Anchorage Assembly is considering removing or revising the current scofflaw statute, which gives police the authority to impound vehicles driven by people with more than $1,000 worth of specific driving or equipment citations.
The Anchorage Police Department is strongly against removing the scofflaw program, Chief Michael Kerle said during an Assemblythis month. He said he believes it takes dangerous drivers off the streets. The police department instead supports the proposal put forth by the Bronson administration.
In those situations, the owners have to pay a $410 administrative fee, plus towing and storage fees. From 2015 until 2019, that meant that 286 vehicles that were registered to someone other than the scofflaw were never retrieved from impound and were therefore auctioned off, Hess said.
“We believe that repealing the law in its entirety will lead to an increase in serious injury/fatal collisions,” she wrote. Rivera said he still supports and will continue to advocate for a full repeal of the program, but said he is being politically realistic by introducing an alternate version that builds upon the administration’s ordinance by addressing the problems with seizing vehicles owned by someone other than the person on the scofflaw list.
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