Ticket Cameras Used To Convict Drivers Without Their Knowledge
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 16 Comments »The law in the state of Oregon (and other states as well) simply says that citations "may be delivered by mail." There is an article on OregonLive.com today that illustrates why this is a major flaw in Oregon's red-light camera ...
Short Yellow Light Times No Longer Going Unnoticed
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »There was an excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal today on the topic of ticket cameras and short yellow light times. This is part of an increasing trend in ticket camera press coverage. Two years ago, the press never mentioned ...
Bernie Madoff & Red-Light Cameras
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President For ten years there were credible investigators and investors telling federal regulatory agencies that Bernard Madoff could not be doing what he claimed to be doing, and that in all probability that he was running a ...
FCC Conspires To Protect Ticket Camera Corporation
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 9 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President The Federal Communications Commission, in the dying days of the Republican administration, has added yet another reason to clear the decks in Washington, D.C. and start all over with a new cast of characters. In a duplicitous, ...
St. Louis Aldermen Don’t Have To Worry About Paying Tickets
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 1 Comment »News stories like this one from STLtoday.com are infuriatingly common. Keep this in mind when you hear a city council enthusiastically praising the idea of installing ticket cameras. Here's an excerpt: When the push to install red-light cameras came to City ...
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red ...
Help Us Stop Short Yellow Lights
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 7 Comments »The National Motorists Association Foundation is organizing a national grassroots effort to publicize and discourage the practice of using traffic signals with short yellow durations as revenue generators at red light ticket camera intersections. The Stop Short Yellow Lights Project ...
Short Red-Light Camera Grace Period Leads To Ticket Refunds
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 6 Comments »Last week, Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer publicized the story of a local driver who was unjustly ticketed: Mike Kochkodin didn't think his car blew the traffic signal on Roosevelt Boulevard. But a few days after the white light flashed, ...
Forget Due Process. We’ll Just Wing It.
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 2 Comments »If you need any further proof that cities with red-light cameras don't care about motorists, check out this article from the Chillicothe Gazette on the Chillicothe, Ohio ticket camera program. They've decided to start issuing citations without having any system in ...
Red-Light Camera Contracts Incentivize Ticketing Innocent Drivers
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »TheNewspaper.com recently published an interesting story on red-light camera ticket quotas in Los Angeles County and Roseville, California. The quota is explained in this excerpt: The contract sets as the baseline that the company must issue 25 tickets for every 100 ...
