LANSING - Secretary of State Ruth Johnson made the following statement regarding the announced deal to eliminate Driver Responsibility Fees:
"This announced deal to address and fully eliminate Driver Responsibility Fees is great news for Michigan motorists. The automatic fees collected by the Department of Treasury were a terrible mistake during the dark days of Michigan's lost decade. They're a double-penalty that hit hard-working Michigan families and unlike the underlying traffic ticket, judges couldn't review or offer alternate ways of taking care of the added fee.
"The fact that we're eli...