Journalist
(California)
She covers the Bay Area and Northern California news for the Los Angeles Times from the San Francisco bureau.
Tags: Health Care, Housing: Homelessness
Links: @leeromney | Link to bio | (Current as of: April 8, 2015)
Los Angeles Times (LA Times)
November 14, 2015
Interest in the drivers license suspension amnesty program has been frenzied. While helping people, legal advocates report that the program has been fraught with inconsistencies.
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Los Angeles Times (LA Times)
May 21, 2015
Many California counties require paying traffic fines in full before a court hearing. California's chief justice calls for an emergency rule to prevent courts from requiring drivers to pay traffic tickets before they can go to court to contest them.
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Los Angeles Times (LA Times)
April 8, 2015
Unpaid traffic court penalties are leading to driver's license suspensions for many of California's poor trapping then in a cycle of debt.
She covers the Bay Area and Northern California news for the Los Angeles Times from the San Francisco bureau.
Tags: Health Care, Housing: Homelessness
Links: @leeromney | Link to bio | (Current as of: April 8, 2015)
She loves tales that focus on people who normally don’t get heard (and places rarely heard from) and has also developed a focus on California’s mental health system. Lee grew up in Canada and then Arizona before moving to the Bay Area.
Lee Romney started with the L.A. Times in 1992 and after many years in the Southland returned to San Francisco in 2003. When not reporting and writing, she paints and makes art out of clay, fabric and other weird things.
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News StoryA frenzied start for state’s traffic ticket amnesty program
Lee RomneyLos Angeles Times (LA Times)
November 14, 2015
Interest in the drivers license suspension amnesty program has been frenzied. While helping people, legal advocates report that the program has been fraught with inconsistencies.
News Story
State chief justice says unpaid traffic fines should get day in court
Maura Dolan, Lee RomneyLos Angeles Times (LA Times)
May 21, 2015
Many California counties require paying traffic fines in full before a court hearing. California's chief justice calls for an emergency rule to prevent courts from requiring drivers to pay traffic tickets before they can go to court to contest them.
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Driver’s license suspensions push poor deeper into poverty, report says
Lee RomneyLos Angeles Times (LA Times)
April 8, 2015
Unpaid traffic court penalties are leading to driver's license suspensions for many of California's poor trapping then in a cycle of debt.
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