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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Indiana Law - More on BMV Scandals
"BMV's arresting new development" is the catchy heading to this editorial today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:
A news report that 10 percent of Bureau of Motor Vehicles employees in Marion County have criminal arrest records adds detail to an already ugly picture of the state agency and lends still more urgency to reforms that have been recommended and promised.The Star ran this news story yesterday on the BMV criminal arrest records. The original WTHR 13 Eyewitness News account of its investigation, dated March 3, may be found here. A folowup, dated March 8, is available here.WTHR (Channel 13), The Indianapolis Star's newsgathering partner, combed the county's law enforcement database after four BMV employees were arrested last year for allegedly trafficking in fraudulent documents involving foreign nationals.
The station found that at least 61 of the county's 624 BMV workers had been arrested, half of them on charges, such as theft and deception, that would bear on their sensitive jobs. Eight employees were convicted of felonies while 11 were convicted of misdemeanors or made deals to avoid trial. For an agency handling the public's money to the tune of 10 million transactions a year, 10 percent is not a performance rate to shoot for in this category.
The Indiana Law Blog's Feb. 20, 2004 entry on the BMV scandal may be accessed here .
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 9, 2004 12:17 PM
Posted to Indiana Law