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Bernie Madoff & Red-Light Cameras

  By James Baxter, NMA President For ten years there were credible investigators and investors telling federal regulatory agencies that Bernard Madoff could not be doing what he claimed to be doing, and that in all probability that he was running a ...

FCC Conspires To Protect Ticket Camera Corporation

By James Baxter, NMA President The Federal Communications Commission, in the dying days of the Republican administration, has added yet another reason to clear the decks in Washington, D.C. and start all over with a new cast of characters. In a duplicitous, ...

St. Louis Aldermen Don’t Have To Worry About Paying Tickets

News stories like this one from STLtoday.com are infuriatingly common. Keep this in mind when you hear a city council enthusiastically praising the idea of installing ticket cameras. Here's an excerpt: When the push to install red-light cameras came to City ...

Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes

By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red ...

Help Us Stop Short Yellow Lights

The National Motorists Association Foundation is organizing a national grassroots effort to publicize and discourage the practice of using traffic signals with short yellow durations as revenue generators at red light ticket camera intersections. The Stop Short Yellow Lights Project ...

Short Red-Light Camera Grace Period Leads To Ticket Refunds

Last week, Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer publicized the story of a local driver who was unjustly ticketed: Mike Kochkodin didn't think his car blew the traffic signal on Roosevelt Boulevard. But a few days after the white light flashed, ...

Forget Due Process. We’ll Just Wing It.

If you need any further proof that cities with red-light cameras don't care about motorists, check out this article from the Chillicothe Gazette on the Chillicothe, Ohio ticket camera program. They've decided to start issuing citations without having any system in ...

Red-Light Camera Contracts Incentivize Ticketing Innocent Drivers

TheNewspaper.com recently published an interesting story on red-light camera ticket quotas in Los Angeles County and Roseville, California. The quota is explained in this excerpt: The contract sets as the baseline that the company must issue 25 tickets for every 100 ...

Ticket Camera Bias Uncovered At The Orlando Sentinel

To stay informed on the latest news about issues important to National Motorists Association members, we keep tabs on multiple news sources around the country. Because of our strong opposition to red light ticket cameras, we monitor news on this ...

Why The Insurance Industry Loves Red-Light Cameras

The insurance industry has been the leading advocate for red-light cameras since they were first introduced in the United States and it's worth examining why they push so hard for their installation. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which ...