In the future,

Peachtree City residents may be able to hop online to pay their traffic

tickets and get a copy of an auto accident report from the Police Department.

Brad Williams,

the city's systems administrator, said those are several features that

could be added to the city's Web site. Access to the auto accident reports

could be secured by requiring a password such as the driver's name and

license number, he said.

Police Chief

James Murray said a lot of visitors to the Police Department come to request

copies of auto accident reports.

Currently,

residents can log on to www.peachtree-city.org for a number of

services, including:

Registering

and paying for recreation classes and activities.

Registering

new golf carts.

Requesting

permits for outdoor burning, tree removal inspections and other services.

A third-party

firm handles the credit card payments for the Recreation Department, but

the city would have to take that task on to allow traffic fines to be

paid over the Internet, said Finance Director Paul Salvatore.

Murray noted

that the department's Web site has been updated recently, allowing interested

persons to apply for department jobs online. He estimated that 70 percent

of the applications the department receives are from the web site.

Murray also

said he did not oppose making the accident reports available over the

Internet.

"They

are a public record," he noted.