This has always been the policy, whether Texas or California.
If you don’t pay a ticket a warrant is issued, if you are caught then you go to jail, jail means a strip search.
This goes back to at least the 1960s and probably far before that.
A long time ago I didn’t pay a traffic ticket in Texas because I simply did not have the money. I rec’d a call from the police dept. warning me that a warrant had been put out so I needed to pay the ticket if I didn’t want to get arrested. It worked and I borrowed the money, went down and paid the fee.
What is wrong with that?