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  • Video cams adding cash to coffers

    04/20/2009 7:46:37 AM PDT · by SmithL · 8 replies · 433+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 4/20/9 | Tony Bizjak
    In Elk Grove, thousands of drivers are chipping in to help balance a city budget that's in the red. They're doing it by going into the red themselves – running lights at two intersections overseen by new high-tech video enforcement cameras. In the year since Elk Grove put cameras at two spots on Laguna Boulevard, the city has banked $600,000 in revenue from citations. Long promoted as safety devices, red-light cameras quietly are becoming modest money-makers in Elk Grove and other California cities, including Marysville and soon possibly Sacramento County. Elk Grove's cash infusion hasn't come, however, from ticketing traditional...