KGMI News
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – People who received $68 tickets for jaywalking on the Western Washington University campus during a recent enforcement action will be getting their money back.
University Police Chief Darin Rasmussen said that after talking to students who were cited he decided his department didn’t give enough advance warning about the action.
“In retrospect, we should definitely have done more in the way of notification, before issuing tickets. The goal of the enforcement action was never intended to be punitive, but to alert our campus community to the dangers of jaywalking,” Rasmussen said in a post on the University’s website.
University Police handed out 23 tickets for jaywalking at an intersection near the Wade King Student Recreation Center on April 12.
People who received tickets will be notified by email about how they’ll be reimbursed by the University.
Rasmussen says his department will continue to educate the community about the dangers of jaywalking.