All of the answers so far are on target, and I will add that a portion of some jurisdictions’ collected fines and fees are used for administrative costs, and ironically, those administrative costs are usually involved in the collection of fines and fees, the processing of fines and fees, the distribution of fines and fees, the payment of salaries and benefits for personnel who work in the section/office charged with the responsibility for fines and fees.
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I’m confused. Did I say that they should not?
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Here in California at least, there’s an entire movement of people bellyaching that the accused and the convicted are too destitute to afford any costs associated with their cases, and that it‘s racist and bigoted to expect it of them.
P.S. I like it when entire briefs are written; I learn from them.