Cities like Los Angeles are deploying a new weapon to force people to pay parking tickets: a newer, lighter "boot" called the Smart Boot. When an LA Parking Enforcement officer boots a car, the wheels ...

(TNS) — The smart boot excels at its job. The city began using the electronic vehicle-immobilization device a year ago to catch motorists who fail to pay their parking tickets, and the results are in.

The city of Los Angeles on Thursday began trying out a new smart boot in hopes the car tire-locking devices will help collect more unpaid parking fines. The city stopped using the old fashioned Denver ...

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation launched a high-tech smart boot pilot today, which it hopes will facilitate the collection of the $21 million of unpaid parking tickets L.A. drivers have ...

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut city’s use of electronic “smart boots” to immobilize the vehicles of parking ticket scofflaws has been a financial windfall. Since Stamford started using the boots ...