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Minneapolis' "photo cop" should be the one getting the red light, civil rights advocates said Thursday on behalf of a cited motorist. Daniel Alan Kuhlman, a Minneapolis resident ticketed Aug. 11, claims the system meant to catch red-light runners is unconstitutional and violates state laws, according to a motion to dismiss the case filed in Hennepin County District Court by American Civil Liberties Union volunteer attorneys. Minneapolis' ordinance states it is the owner of the car who drove through the red light who is guilty of a petty misdemeanor — the cameras record license plates, but not drivers' faces, the...

Badly timed traffic signals cost Union City big bucks Yellow cycle found to be too short; red-light camera tickets to be dismissed By Barry Shatzman, CORRESPONDENT UNION CITY — Every ticket generated by red-light enforcement cameras in the city before last Saturday will be dismissed due to a snafu — letting thousands of red-light runners off the hook and costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars in anticipated revenue. Police officials and city engineers discovered last week that the yellow-light duration at every one of its camera-enforced intersections was too short — in some cases by more than a...