Chalking Tires

A federal court in Michigan dismissed a citizen’s challenge to the city of Saginaw’s practice of placing a chalk mark on tires of cars to monitor parking times, finding that “a discrete chalk mark on a tire does not substantially interfere with a party’s individual liberty.”

BAY CITY, Mich. — A federal court in Michigan dismissed a citizen’s challenge to the city of Saginaw’s practice of placing a chalk mark on tires of cars to monitor parking times, finding that “a discrete chalk mark on a tire does not substantially interfere with a party’s individual liberty.”

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