Claim: "A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson  was being reaped by civil fines."
Fact-check: Budgets from Ferguson, Mo., don't support Rand Paul's claim on the city's reliance on civil fines
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: C. Eugene Emery Jr.
Date published: 2016-01-29T00:00:00