City of Great Falls plans to reinstate parking violation procedures [Video]

Beginning November 1, 2024, the City of Great Falls will be reinstating their parking violation procedures, following a two-year suspension.

Great Falls will reinstate parking violation procedures

The city’s standard parking violation procedures were suspended in 2022, due to a license plate recognition error that has now been fixed.

Brock Cherry, director for city planning and community development, explained, “The city started to not boot cars anymore during 2022 because there was a reconfiguration with the software that we used, in order to ensure that we were booting the proper persons and also being able to mail them letters concerning any sort of violation that they had.”

The City of Great Falls uses the third-party entity, Passport Parking, for metered parking around downtown.

Passport Parking did not have access to the state DMV data, which caused the license plate recognition error within the software.

“It’s state-owned information, it’s sensitive, and when [the state] distributes it to an …