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>> reporter: good morning. the move is being called significant even by those who have been deeply critical of ferguson's courts and police department. the city is taking concrete steps to prevent people from being jailed because they simply can't afford to pay fines and on top of those fines the court was imposing fees, so putting people deeper and deeper into debt they simply couldn't get out of and then going to jail because of it. let me give you what a municipal court judge has ordered. it's a withdrawal of not just the arrest warrant for things like fines but all arrest warrants issued before december 31st, 2014. those ticketed for minor traffic violations will no longer be arrested but given another court date and if they can't pay outright, they can face alternative penalties like payment plans or community service or if they are deemed indigent, their fees could be wiped out altogether. now, while the warrants are wiped clean, that does not mean the cases go away. the cases stay put. they have to still work those out in court but people will still have to face the courts to

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