Local School Board Wants Ticket Camera Cash
April 11th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras
In 2006, North Carolina’s second-highest court ruled that, under the state constitution, cities had to give 90 percent of ticket camera revenue to the public school system. Because the true appeal of ticket cameras is revenue, this ruling caused the cities of Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greenville, Greensboro, High Point and Raleigh to shut down their red light camera programs.
However, according to local news station News 14 Carolina, Fayetteville’s ticket cameras may be coming back. But this time it’s not the city that is making a play for the ticket camera money, it’s the local school board:
Red-light cameras might be coming back to Fayetteville to catch drivers running stop lights. Fayetteville removed the cameras last year after the state required 90 percent of fines to go to schools. The city said it could not afford to pay for the service with the remaining 10 percent. [...] School board member Greg West wants to change that. He proposed bringing back the red-light cameras after talking with the mayor. His colleague on the school board, Kim Fisher, thinks it is a good idea.
So the local school board, which has no expertise in traffic safety to speak of, would like to install red-light cameras? If they’re interested in traffic safety, why not let them set speed limits then? Or maybe after lunch the cafeteria lady can set up a roadblock and check for proper vehicle registrations.
But surely the school board isn’t in charge of deciding whether or not the cameras are installed…
The school board will now meet with companies who run red-light cameras to come up with a proposal. That proposal will then be passed on to the school board for a vote.
Wow.
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5 Responses to “Local School Board Wants Ticket Camera Cash”
By Frank on Apr 12, 2008
http://jalopnik.com/361500/michigan-police-officer-writes-2400-tickets-gets-21562-in-overtime-pay
By Scott M. Karriker on Apr 14, 2008
School Boards have no business voting on Highways issues, especially ones to raise revenue. They should focus on the schools and stop forcing an involuntary tax on motorists to meet their budgets.
Scott
By DMPate on Apr 25, 2008
Sort of gives a new meaning to the three “R”s:
1- Reading you your rights
2- wRiting you a ticket
3- aRithmetic in counting up the fine $$$
Do the local school principal’s judge the offenders in their offices? Do the counselors defend or prosecute?
By Strider on Apr 27, 2008
Yet another reason to abolish govt. schools altogether.