If you haven't seen it, we did a story last night touching on allegations that some county employees are "gaming" a system to get handicapped hangtags, so they can park for free inside the City County Building.
Folks, this is an awful thing to do. Man, seriously. There's a nice hot place for you in the afterlife if you do stuff like this by the way.
Anyhoo, there's a ton of elements to the story.
Here's the beginning, and you can find the rest of it right smack here.
A number of Knox County leaders suspect government workers are cheating a system that allows them to obtain and keep handicapped hangtags so they can park for free inside the downtown City County Building.
Now local leaders want to discourage that by changing state law to allow them to charge disabled employees for parking privileges.
They say the move would add dollars – at least $43,000 annually – to the coffers and prevent some workers from jumping ahead of employees who park elsewhere and have waited years for the coveted garage spots.
It also would be more equitable, overall, for the employees who work in the City County Building, the headquarters of local governmental operations.
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