Pretty recently (2018-ish?), in Seattle, someone I knew ended up racking up a 100 dollar fine at the Seattle Public Library. What was extremely shocking about t

Pretty recently (2018-ish?), in Seattle, someone I knew ended up racking up a 100 dollar fine at the Seattle Public Library. What was extremely shocking about this, however, was that the Library at that time felt the need to send it to collections. The scenario one could envision for the outcome of something like this is pretty dystopian. This could well end up damaging someone's credit to the point where they would have trouble finding housing. There probably would have been less repercussions for stealing a book due to what's been going on with SPD and minor crimes like that, which is pretty out of control :/