If what you say is correct, then a ticket coming from a red light camera is the only criminal process in America that does not have the right of appeal. Do you have a source?
Unfortunately, no. I live here in the democrat bastion of Charlotte, NC and all I know is what the officials have said. If a picture is taken and it was not you, then you have to turn that person in. The person that the car is registered to is liable. I also know that before we got them, the state had to pass a law to even make them legal.
That's where the problem started, the idea of infractions, which are unconstitutional. Still, the process of the cameras is all mechanical, and I, for the life of me, don't understand why more people are not exorcised over being stopped for absolutely no reason in the middle of the night at a roadblock and asked questions regarding an actual crime, for which there was absolutely no reason to believe, prior to the stop, that they had committed. I watched a crippled man peform stunts for over fifteen minutes before being released, a few months ago, at one such roadblock. He had had his car driven to the side by officers, then forced to dance like a monkey, all because he had the unfortunate luck of being crippled.
And BTW, in my business, they send people 100 fines and assume everyone is guilty unless you prove yourself innocent and there is no due process at all!