Largest town in US held in contempt for producing just 17 of nearly 3K court-requested emails over school-bus cameras

NY Post ^ | 9/28/25 | Brandon Cruz

[Libloather]

The largest town in America has been held in contempt by a New York judge for releasing just 17 of nearly 3,000 emails sought in a battle over alleged illegally issued school-bus-camera tickets.

State Supreme Court Justice Maureen McHugh Heitner last week ruled that the failure of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, Long Island, to produce the roughly 3,000 records amounted to “willful disobedience and resistance.”

The town had agreed to release the records after signing an agreement in June with the Brooklyn-based Aron Law PLLC, which is repping accused scofflaws — yet Hempstead has produced only 17 emails to date, court papers show.

“Historically that’s been our experience with the town,” said lead plaintiff lawyer Joseph Aron.

At issue is the town’s use of the buses’ footage to ticket drivers who fail to properly stop for them — a safety move that is also a major moneymaker, raking in tens of millions of dollars.

Aron’s law firm sued the town when Hempstead officials denied its original Sept. 2024 Freedom of Information Law request for the sought-after emails on the town’s servers, specifically any that contain the term “croce.”

The firm’s request centered on whether the town was still issuing bus-camera violations in spite of People v. Croce — a 2023 Suffolk County decision that threw out a driver’s conviction after finding school-bus-camera footage alone wasn’t enough to prove guilt.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I learn more than I want to know, every day! ;-)

[Fiji Hill]

I thought that terms like “city,” “town, “village,” and “hamlet were informal terms used to describe places of varying population density, not technical terms with precise limitations.

In England, a village is a bedroom community, a town has a marketplace where a farmer's market is held every two weeks or so, and a city has a degree of independence from the surrounding shire.

On the continent, the situation is similar. While staying in a village in Germany, I set out for the commercial district and told the folks I was staying with that I was going downtown, a term for which there is no German equivalent. So I said that I was going into the city, and they laughed--the proper term was "into the village."

[doorgunner69]

Corruption in the sewer known as NYC.

I’m shocked, shocked!

[BFW]

OH s*&t! they gonna find out it was all BS and that we spent the money on hookers and booze......

Let’s hope there’s some prison time in this for the city government...