re: How to respond to Insufficient Debt Validation?

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? why not? Doesn't City ordinance make owner liable?

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You can't hide behind a city ordinance to avoid meeting your burden of proof in court, even a low burden of proof that is the standard for civil actions.

Despite what the supporters of the money grab that is for-profit law enforcement think, you can't sue an inanimate object, nor can you constitutionally require someone you name as a defendant to aid you in meeting your burden by forcing them to point their finger at the actual driver when an alleged violation took place.

Of course this is why the Lafayette city/parish leaders haven't found any sucker lawyer willing to bring these claims on their behalf for a portion of the collected fee or on a contingency basis. They would have done so two years ago when Tony Tramell and that old fart Charlie Buckles (who claims to be a small government conservative Republican, lol) were ratcheting up the rhetoric on the TV news stations about suing people over these unpaid "tickets".

It's only about maximizing the number of scared people, not at all about public safety or any ad hominem character flaw of those who refuse to give in to this awful money grab.