Appellate court sides with San Diego over 'chalking' tires to enforce parking time limits [Breaking]
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld San Diego’s longstanding practice of chalking tires to enforce time limits in parking spaces on city streets, according to a ruling issued Wednesday.
The plaintiffs, Andre Verdun and Ian Anoush Golkar, argued in their 2019 class-action suit against the city and its Police Department that chalking tires is an unconstitutional intrusion on the rights of car owners who parked their vehicles legally.A federal court judge granted the city’s motion for summary judgment early last year, and the plaintiffs appealed.
“Chalking involves no detention of persons or property; it does not damage property or add anything permanent to it; and the search does not create ‘substantial anxiety,’ as some searches may,” Bress wrote.“San Diego has chalked tires as an effective, cost-efficient and accurate means of parking enforcement for nearly 100 years,” she said.