Court fines increase

By Susan Schwarz

Thursday, July 19, 2007

The Lawrence City Commission passed an ordinance increasing municipal court fees on July 17.

A spokeswoman for the municipal court said the ordinance would go into effect after its publication this weekend.

The changing fees include:

$150 fee for supervised probation

$10 fee for fingerprinting done through the municipal court

$52 per day fee cost incurred by the city for incarceration

$100 increase on the cost of diversion

The standard diversion fee for an MIP is $300 this will increase to $400 after the ordinance goes into effect.

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