Jurisdiction data snapshot
An analysis of NYC's own published parking-and-camera violation records — 147.7 million citations — shows $1.7B still outstanding. The single largest unpaid category isn't parking at all: it's $320M in school-zone speed-camera tickets. Camera plus parking, in one place, is exactly what a driver-facing reminder layer is built to surface.
Source: NYC Open Data · Open Parking & Camera Violations · 147.7M recordsOutstanding balances by violation type. Camera enforcement — school-zone speed and bus-lane cameras — tops the list, ahead of every parking category. These are exactly the citations a driver never sees until a late notice arrives.
camera enforcement · over $400M of the outstanding balance is camera tickets a plate-based reminder can surface
$1.54B of the $1.7B outstanding sits in citations that were never contested or resolved — they just went unpaid. That's not a disputes problem; it's a notification problem.
NYC eventually collects most of what it issues — but at any moment $1.7B is outstanding, aging toward judgment, boot, and tow.
37.3M school-zone speed and 4.7M bus-lane camera citations are mailed to the registered owner — easy to miss, and invisible without a plate-based lookup.
We add a consented, resident-facing reminder layer on top of the systems NYC already runs — no change to enforcement, pricing, or the official record.
Drivers authorize us (clear consent + DPPA basis) to monitor parking and camera citations tied to their plates.
They're alerted the moment a citation posts — including camera tickets they'd otherwise only learn about by mail — with a one-tap link to NYC's official CityPay.
Even a small lift in on-time payment against a $1.7B outstanding balance is a large absolute recovery, with fewer boots, tows, and judgments.
A narrow pilot reading public citation status. We never take the payment or touch the official record.
NYC has $1.7B outstanding — $400M+ of it camera tickets drivers can't see without a plate lookup. A consented reminder layer surfaces both parking and camera citations before they escalate, at no cost and no system change for the city.
Figures are computed directly from NYC Open Data's Open Parking and Camera Violations
dataset (resource nc67-uf89), which tracks 147,714,200 citations across
the payment lifecycle. Totals: $9.60B fines issued, $9.14B paid, $1.71B outstanding
(amount_due). Outstanding-by-type uses sum(amount_due) grouped by
violation; status uses violation_status. This is a point-in-time snapshot of
public records to illustrate the collection gap — not a claim about any individual driver.
Data: data.cityofnewyork.us.
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