Texas Governor Gregg Abbott just signed legislation here in Texas banning red light cameras.
Red light cameras are banned in Kentucky, but a new democrat in the state legislature is just introduced a law to try and make them legal.
I think it’s unlikely based on talking to my representative that it could become law. But you never know. The state gets pressure from localities because of their insatiable desire for revenue
Good. I have somehow been spared them but they absolutely raise my anger level to top end.
If there ever was a reason for the people to fight back this issue (and identity theft) are it, in my opinion.
In a thread on FR a few years ago the lying local government somewhere (saying this is for “safety”) was caught in an exchange where the email from the red light camera company said “You should drop the plan for ——— intersection. There’s not enough traffic to make any money on it.”
“Texas Governor Gregg Abbott just signed legislation here in Texas banning red light cameras.”
they’re not banned in colorado, but legislators made the whole deal a purely civil matter with no criminal consequences ... as a result, it’s up to the jurisdictions to pursue collection via civil processes ...
just ignore the set of letters they send for the first few weeks and be aware that they MIGHT then spend the bucks to try to serve civil papers to appear in civil court and be prepared to dodge service ... i did that very thing, namely, dodged service when an off-duty, moonlighting deputy tried to serve me one early saturday morning ... wife came to the door and said go away ... service HAS to be in person, so that failed ... i figured they’d cut their loses and not want to pay again for another service attempt since they knew they were dealing with someone that knew the score ...
btw, other effective techniques if you travel in a camera city are to wear large dark glasses, a baseball cap pulled low, and/or even a mask ... if they can’t match the driver’s picture to a driver’s license associated with the auto registration, then they won’t even bother to mail the civil fine papers to start with, and if they do, just check the box “not me” ...