Atlanta police caught with expired license tags

ATLANTA (AP) Most motorists would be fined $100 for driving with an expired license tag. <br> <br> Not the police. <br> <br> It is unclear how many of the unmarked cars driven by Atlanta detectives and police supervisors have expired tags, but Wednesday night at City Hall East, 27 of 62 cars didn&#39;t have an up-to-date sticker on their tags. <br> <br> ``It&#39;s news to me,&#39;&#39; Mayor Shirley Franklin said. She said she would talk to Police Chief Beverly Harvard about it. <br> <br> ``It&#39;s a mess,&#39;&#39; said Officer Richard Straut, who was stopped by Atlanta police last week. Straut, president of the police union, drives an unmarked car because he handles investigations. <br> <br> Rick Anderson, the city&#39;s chief financial officer, blamed bureaucracy. <br> <br> The city&#39;s Bureau of Motor Transport has been in chaos since its head resigned last month when officials started questioning him about money from the city&#39;s vending machines, Anderson said. <br> <br> Police said they have been told the bureau ran out of stickers.

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