LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A six-month-long amnesty program that ended June 30 took in just under $100,000 for Lake County.

The Administrative Office of the Courts offered the program from January through June, as Lake County News has reported.

Superior courts throughout California – including Lake’s – participated in the program, which allowed individuals to pay off old traffic tickets with a 50-percent reduction. Parking tickets, DUIs and reckless driving citations were not eligible for the program.

A report provided to Lake County News by Lake County Treasurer-Tax Collector Sandra Shaul showed that Lake County collected approximately $99,792.86 on 207 cases. The county must pay $30,369.70 on those collections.

Shaul called it “better than nothing but a drop in the bucket.”

That’s because Lake County has 12,748 such cases that remain outstanding, with those cases valued at just over $12 million, according to Shaul’s report on the amnesty program.

Of the funds collected, $7,965.73 will go toward the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, $2,842.06 to the Trial Court Trust Fund and $1,249.11 to the Trial Court Improvement Fund, Shaul’s report showed.

Shaul said her staff will be evaluating the accounts receivable for aging and low value to determine what outstanding accounts might merit discharge.

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