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'Photo Cops' Could Write Automated Tickets to Generate Money for Detroit Public Schools
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 12/15/2016 | Tom Gantert

Posted on 12/19/2016 10:06:01 AM PST by MichCapCon

The Michigan Senate has passed a bill that would allow the Detroit public school system to hire a company to install and operate an automated traffic citation system — known as “photo cop.”

The legislation, Senate Bill 852, sponsored by Sen. Bert Johnson, D-Detroit, was passed following an unusual procedure in which it was discharged from the Senate Transportation Committee directly to the full Senate without a vote by the committee.

Senate Bill 852 would permit Detroit school buses to have cameras installed to capture images of motorists who illegally pass a stopped school bus. Fines for violations would range from $300 to $1,000 depending on the number of offenses. The bill also allows the district to add a $100 late fee if the original ticket is not paid by the due date. The money would go to the Detroit public school district.

Under a constitutional “five day” rule, Tuesday is the earliest the House could take up the bill in the current lame duck-session.

Senate Bill 852 was passed by a 34-3 vote, with the only ‘no’ votes coming from Republicans Patrick Colbeck, Tori Rocca and Jim Stamas. It has been referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by Rep. Ben Glardon, R-Owosso.

State law currently prohibits automated ticket writing. MCL 257.742(1) requires traffic tickets to be issued by a police officer who actually witnesses the violation.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: detroit; police; tickets
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Wow...guess there is a first time to hear everything.
We learned lessons like "stay right except to pass, maintain safe following distance, never pass a school bus with illuminated flashers" and similar.
Your relative must have missed Driver's Education class that day! :-)

21 posted on 12/19/2016 10:50:10 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: MichCapCon

6th ammendment


22 posted on 12/19/2016 10:53:10 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Until a malfunction in the system INCORRECTLY sends you a $1000 ticket plus $100 late-payment fees.

23 posted on 12/19/2016 10:54:23 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: MichCapCon

The second part of the scheme is for every dollar generated by this method, a dollar is removed from what would normally go to the school from the general fun.

Net result - hidden tax for the government, no additional money for the schools.


24 posted on 12/19/2016 10:57:47 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: MichCapCon
Photo Cop

"You must stop at a loading or unloading bus. You have 10 seconds to comply... You must stop at a loading or unloading bus. You have 9 seconds to comply...

-PJ

25 posted on 12/19/2016 10:58:14 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: MichCapCon

And of course the system is fool-proof against false positives.


26 posted on 12/19/2016 10:59:51 AM PST by samtheman (Voted Trump)
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To: Blue Jays

For that kind of cost?
Lawyer up!


27 posted on 12/19/2016 11:44:58 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: MichCapCon

HAHAHAHA. And 1 day after the first camera is installed the NAACP will be out screaming it disproportionally hurts blacks who are unable to afford the fines.


28 posted on 12/19/2016 11:45:41 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: MichCapCon

Hell no because it will never stop and the invasiveness of liberal encroachment knows no bounds especially when you are paying for it while they’re exempt.


29 posted on 12/19/2016 11:59:42 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Mr. K
< WITH ALL THE TAX MONEY ALREADY COLLECTED WHY DO “THE SCHOOLS” STILL NEED TO GO BEGGING???

Because no matter how much they get its never enough. Watch the teenagers with free reign of their parent's credit cards at the malls here the next few days and you'll get a good taste of what a wasteful spendthrift the leftist government is like. Give em an inch and they'll take a yard.

30 posted on 12/19/2016 12:05:15 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Blue Jays
> Indeed. Not to mention the costs of installing and administering the expensive cameras and infrastructure likely to collect NOTHING in revenue!

If they don't produce enough revenue they penalize the client and make them pay a certain amount according to how the account was initially set up. Several municipalities have been sued for these amounts and it's not cheap to litigate.

31 posted on 12/19/2016 12:11:02 PM PST by jsanders2001
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