Deputy Ruiz, Head Deputy on AVC Lancaster Campus/ Photo by: Mindy Simmons
Every semester hundreds of tickets are given out to students by the police patrolling the campus. Now only two days into the fall 2011 semester, over 100 tickets were given out to students for numerous reasons, most popular being parking in staff parking and also parking in handicapped parking.
During the first two weeks of the semester parking is free, so even though that has not been an issue so far, parking without a permit is the number one most popular reason as to why students get tickets.
Deputy Ruiz says that as of the first day of school, August 22, 10 tickets have been given out to students for making an illegal left turn at entrance G, which is an entrance across the Liberal Studies buildings in the main parking lot. Currently the Lancaster Sheriff motor units are assisting with the illegal left turns, which are Sheriffs on motor bikes.
There have been some students that have actually gotten out of tickets by making valid points on the tickets such as the date on the ticket was wrong, or the license number on the ticket was different. So there are ways to get out of tickets on campus, but the best way to avoid these tickets would be to get a parking pass.
September 6 is the last day to park in the campus parking lots for free, so in order to avoid being one of the hundreds of students that received tickets, parking passes are currently being sold at the cashiers office in the student services building at $15.
By Kristi Phillips
