Border politics & O.C. traffic tickets

Looks like talk radio is getting involved in a controversy over traffic tickets in Orange County being processed in Mexico. Critics express concerns over ID theft:

Traffic ticket data, including driver’s license numbers, birthdates and other personal information, is processed by workers in Mexico under an outsourcing contract with Orange County courts. There was outrage over Thursday’s disclosure that the court has contracted for ticket data entry since March 2006 with Cerritos-based Cal Coast Data Entry Inc. The work is done at a Cal Coast facility in Nogales, Mexico. DMV information "has to be kept as closely guarded as possible, and outsourcing this kind of information outside the country is something this board would never support," Supervisor Chris Norby said during an interview Thursday on KFI radio. (AP)

Comments

[John M.]

Neither is mushroom-picking. Watch the LA Times's sister publication, the Allentown (PA) Morning Call (http://mcall.com) and its coverage of the striking down of the Hazleton, PA anti-immigrant ordinance.

Funny thing about the work ethic - it seems to increase the closer you get to hunger or homelessness. Mexicans doing data entry are keeping the wolves from their door; Mexicans in Pennsylvania abandoned their home country because the wolves already got in. In southern California our concern is identity theft; in Pennsylvania their concern is national identity.

It's a very strange coin, but I think they're the two faces of it.

[Kurtis D Stiefel]

I hope the court changes this,we should not have this policy.

[Don]

I guess data input is a job that Americans just won't do.