Narcisse asks about in-house collection effectiveness
Narcisse asks whether DOF in-house staff have better collection rates for certain violations. Lee describes increasing resources for the internal Alternative Enforcement Unit and a new strategy of one-on-one engagement with top violators, starting with idling violations and Amazon.
Do you see that DOF in-house staff have a better rate at collecting certain violations?
If so, what kind of violations?
Well, we are right now trying to increase our in-house efforts.
Our internal alternative, not AP, our internal...
The AEP.
AEP.
AEP, sorry.
Alternative Enforcement Unit.
We're increasing our resources for our internal AEP unit, Alternative Enforcement Unit.
And what their job is to work directly with companies to get to judgment.
This is a strategy we employed sort of starting this year.
With the idling violations.
Earlier this year, we did a close one-on-one, sort of like a
constituent walkthrough with Amazon on the idling violations.
And that was sort of a new strategy that we utilized internally for our highest idling violation.
And we intend to do some of the similar strategies for our next set of highest violations.
And we're also increasing our legal docketing as well.
Thank you so much.
And the commissioner, if you can get us the information, the statistics that you referenced as soon as you can, that would be greatly appreciated by the committee.
Absolutely.
I will now have Deputy Speaker Williams have her questions.