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Guzman responds to allegations
TweetCOLUMBUS — The outgoing director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety is denying a newspaper report that he “maliciously and purposely” postponed a change in how vehicles are registered, allowing large numbers of undocumented workers to obtain license plates.
Henry Guzman also said policy changes were in the works for more than a year and played no role in his recently announced decision to retire.
“This problem existed before I got here over several administrations,” Guzman told The Vindicator. “I’m the one that addressed the problem. Did it take a year? Yes. Now we have a policy in place which is stronger than the original, and it meets all legal requirements.”
Guzman’s comments came in response to a Columbus Dispatch report over the weekend that thousands of individuals were able to register cars and get license plates even though they did not have valid Social Security numbers or car insurance.
The newspaper said Guzman delayed a crackdown on a loophole allowing the practice for more than a year after hearing from mostly Latino-owned car dealers, financing and insurance companies and others.
Not true, Guzman told The Vindicator late Monday. In fact, he said he was the one who pushed for a change in how vehicles are registered in the state.
For the full story, read Wednesday's Vindicator or Vindy.com.
Comments
Old Henry Guzman, one of the great bureaucratic infighters of all time, finally got what he had coming all along. He was less about good government and more about enforcing loyalty to King Henry's way, the public's well being be damned. In this instance he was caught red handed delaying implementation of a new regulation that would have ended this practice whereby the Ohio system was used to register vehicles. He was done in by the same tactics he had used against others on countless occasions.............like when he recently leaked information against the Patrol leadership for buying meals from an account to the tune of $30. If his name were Smith or Jones he would be flipping burgers at Wendy's, another poor hire by Strickland.