Wrongly booted Vehicle and charged for parking tickets that were applied to vehicle

To Whom It May Concern;

I have repeatedly been the victim of multiple injustices by the Parking Violations Bureau of Los Angeles, I have been contesting 4 tickets that I received for my registration tags since January of 2007. The first ticket I received January 11th, the second on January 18th, the 3rd on January 26th and the 4th on January 30th.

This is the way it occurred. I made an appointment for a smog check for my vehicle on January 11th. The appointment was for January 13th. I passed my smog on January 13th and the certification was electronically submitted to the DMV. I was told that my registration tags would be sent to me by mail.

I waited for the registration tags to arrive and when they didn't in February I went to the DMV to see what the delay was. DMV personnel told me that they did not mail out my tags and did not give me a satisfactory answer as to why. They did receive my smog certification, they have my current mailing address in their system. I went through all of their brochures and checked their website online and nothing said that after smog certification that I was supposed to come into the DMV to get my registration tags AFTER they had already been submitted electronically.

On March 23rd I received a ticket on my vehicle for the street sweep near my residence. I was out of town and my best friend forgot to move my car, but he took the ticket off of it to pay for it. I did not know I had received a ticket until I went online to see if the previous tickets I was contesting had been taken care of. Upon seeing the street sweep ticket along with the 4 tickets I was contesting, I went to the USPS Office on Hollywood Blvd on March 30th by money order# 10879744410, not knowing if this payment was even justified since there wasn't a ticket on my car and I hadn't spoken to my best friend yet about it. At that time I paid the street sweep $50 ticket I was still contesting the previous four.

On September 4th I acquired a boot on my vehicle. The boot, to my understanding, is only applied when 5 or more tickets are outstanding on a vehicle. I had 4 tickets I'd been contesting since January 2007 and the street sweep ticket that I had already paid for. On September 5th I had a hearing for the boot and ticket charges and tried to clear up the mistake that was made. I spoke to a Mr. Ghent who verified that the payment I made towards the street sweep ticket on March 30th was received and applied by the Parking Violations Bureau, but they had applied the payment towards 2 of the 4 tickets that I was contesting instead of the street sweep ticket it was for.

It is very disorganized between the state and city departments of Los Angeles. I did not have 5 tickets on my vehicle that supports acquiring a boot. The city and state departments are receiving too much money from the common citizen/ layman to not be able to communicate in this day and age and with all the technology we have to not be able to assure mistakes like this do not happen.

I want a refund of all the money charged to me and paid by me plus the $10 I had to spend on bus fare to contest the boot on my vehicle for the 4th and 5th.