The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct on Tuesday recommended that a town judge in North Country—Elizabethtown Town Court Justice Richard F. Olcott—be censured for involving himself in the disposition of his son’s traffic ticket last year.

The commission said Olcott, who is not an attorney and has been on the bench since 2020, compounded his misconduct by failing to mechanically record any of the vehicle and traffic proceedings in his court.