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Seattle Red Light Camera Issuing Illegal Tickets

According to King 5 News, red light camera tickets generated at a high-traffic intersection are being thrown out in court by local judges because the tickets are illegal: Traffic judges have declared the camera set-up illegal at a busy intersection ...

Tennessee Ticket Cameras: Can You Solve This Puzzle?

Last week, as way to turn down the heat from the general public, the Tennessee House Transportation Committee approved a two-year moratorium on new red light cameras and speed cameras. However, they protected the state's current ticket camera programs by ensuring ...

Ticket Camera Company Illegally Threatens Florida Drivers

When a city signs a contract with a ticket camera company -- even though cities often insist it's not the case -- they're delegating law enforcement activities to a private company. The story below, from TheLedger.com, shows just one of ...

Everybody Loves (To Destroy) Ticket Cameras

Ticket camera corporations like to put out press releases and pay for biased surveys that show that ticket cameras are well-liked by the general public. The reality is that this is far from the truth. This is borne out by ...

Red Light Camera Wrongly Tickets Woman Who Was Out Of State

In another story that ticket camera companies will insist is an isolated incident (despite a new incident seemingly surfacing each week), a Peoria, Illinois woman was sent a ticket that should have gone to another driver. WMBD/WYZZ TV has the ...

Los Angeles Red Light Cameras Lead To Increased Accidents

Thanks to an excellent piece of investigative journalism by David Goldstein of Los Angeles television station KCAL, motorists are getting the real accident numbers at Los Angeles camera-enforced intersections. The city has claimed that the cameras reduced accidents by 34%, but ...

9 Cities Where Citizens Voted To Ban Ticket Cameras

Despite claims by the ticket camera industry that most drivers support the use of ticket cameras, the automatic ticketing devices have never survived a public vote. That trend continued this week as three more cities were forced to shut down ...

Driver Convicted Of Speeding Without Ever Receiving Ticket

The Beacon News in Illinois has another story of ticket camera bureaucracy causing problems for motorists. Here's an excerpt: Unsure why the Kane County Circuit Clerk would send him anything in the mail, Ernie Bolen assumed he'd been summoned for jury ...

Red Light Camera Tickets Innocent Driver Yet Again

A recent news report in Baton Rouge, Louisiana gives yet another example of a red light camera ticketing an innocent driver and then leaving it up to the accused motorist to prove the ticket was undeserved. Here's a quick overview of ...

Essential Material For Ticket Camera Activists

By Gary Biller, NMA Executive Director The effective way to defeat red-light and speed camera initiatives in your community, or to mount effective opposition to existing installations, is to ratchet up the pressure on local politicians.  It takes a strong grassroots ...