Mayor Adrian Fenty is proposing to mount cameras on the District’s fleet of street sweepers in an intensified effort to nab vehicles illegally parked during a block’s designated weekly cleaning period.

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray has introduced legislation at Fenty’s request to add parking enforcement to the city’s arsenal of automated-ticketing technologies. Like photo red-light and radar technology, the cameras would photograph the license plate of an offender’s illegally parked vehicle, noting the date and time. A computer program would then automatically issue the ticket.