Public workers owe $1.4 mil.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Ten years after City Clerk Jim Laski blew the lid off the City Hall scofflaw scandal, government employees still owe $1.4 million in overdue parking tickets and water bills.

The Daley administration prefers to look at the glass as half full.

Thanks to 5,300 wage garnishments in the past year and an improved computer tracking system, employee debt is down from an all-time high of $8.5 million in 1996. And it's down by 65 percent since last year, when the combined amount owed by city employees and their counterparts at the Board of Education, CTA, CHA and City Colleges approached $4 million.

They certainly are a special class of citizens.