Sean C. Morgan
The city of Sweet Home has collected about $1 million in delinquent fines through its Municipal Court since it began turning unpaid fines over to a collections agency in 1999.
It has turned about $4.5 million in fines over to collections since then.
In 1998, the city had $1.1 million in outstanding fines, and the city turned to a collections agency the following year to begin collecting that cash. The city’s auditors…