AGGRESSIVE PARKING TICKETING AT SIUE

MC 204 RADIO NEWS

CHEYENNE SLACK

2/11/2020 [TRT: 4:25]

LEAD: SIUE students are fed up with alleged aggressive parking ticketing on campus. Reporter

Cheyenne Slack has more.

SLACK: Students who park in the SIUE parking lots say that they are victims of predatory

ticketing. Whether they’re parking in pass specific lots or using metered parking, students can be

ticketed for not following the set rules. These regulations are enforced in all non-residential

permit-required lots from eight a.m. to eight p.m., Monday through Thursday and eight a.m. to

five thirty p.m. on Friday; parking is open on the weekend. Ticketing is enforced 24 hours a day

and seven days a week within residential parking lots. Lot specific regulations are displayed on

signs placed at the entrance of every parking lot and can be found on the SIUE parking services

page, but many students feel that parking restrictions are not clear enough. SIUE sophomore Joe

File spoke about his experience with parking citations.

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SLACK: File feels that he is a victim of a messy, confusing, and demanding parking system.

File says that he was ticketed so frequently, approximately seven times, that he ended up owing

400-dollars and having his car towed without warning. Many of these tickets were given in quick

succession and in his opinion, were not deserved. If a ticket is disputed, one can appeal it and it

will be subject to a review. But, like many others, File was afraid to challenge a ticket and

ultimately felt that he wouldn't have been successful. File was surprised to find with each ticket
the fee would rise 10-dollars and believes that SIUE over monitors parking and preys on the

people of SIUE out of greed.

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SLACK: According to Anthony Langendorf, director of parking services at SIUE, employees

that monitor parking lots are not given any kind of quota when it comes to ticketing and are not

able to determine how much time one may have left on a parking meter before expiration. There

are a total of seven parking monitors that are split between three working shifts: day, afternoon,

and night shifts. These monitors give out approximately 200 citations on any given day. SIUE

does not receive state funding for parking services. Langendorf spoke about how SIUE

determines rates for citations and permits and how that revenue may be used.

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SLACK: SIUE sets pricing according to an estimation of funds needed to maintain the parking

lots. It may come as a surprise that parking citations actually used to be much more expensive.

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SLACK: Langendorf says that in an ideal world parking monitors would be giving out zero

citations, but the reality is that regulating parking keeps students safe. The goal for SIUE is to

see the amount of citations drop rather than rise. If students have questions pertaining to parking,

citations, and appeals you can look to the parking services web page. This is Cheyenne Slack

reporting for Mass Comm 204. [4:25]