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Article: State security guards write illegal tickets.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2000
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The State Department's private security guards have written illegal D.C. parking tickets on city streets.
The security guards look like police officers and wear badges identifying them as federal "officers," but most are unlicensed in the District and have authority only on State Department property.
Andy Laine, a spokesman for the State Department's Diplomatic Protective Service, responding to inquiries by The Washington Times, said 14 parking tickets were written by mistake. He said 34 other parking tickets have been issued on State Department property that he says are properly written.
"There were 14 tickets that were issued in error. ...