Dear Governor Baker, Don’t do it! Don’t allow red-light cameras to become entrenched in Massachusetts under the guise of traffic safety. For years, state lawmakers have been trying to bring in these automated traffic enforcement devices. They might indeed improve one area for the state by bringing more cash to hard-hit municipalities. “Policing for Profit” […]
40 Blog Posts From the LICENSE PLATE Tag
Open Letter to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on the Proposed Use of Red-Light Cameras
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May 5, 2021
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Automated Traffic Enforcement, Corruption, DUE PROCESS, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, Policing for Profit, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets, YELLOW LIGHT, Yellow Light Duration, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING
Have Checkpoints Gone Too Far?
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March 5, 2021
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ACLU, CHECKPOINT, DUI/DWI, LICENSE PLATE, PRIVACY, ROADBLOCK, SAFETY, TRAFFIC STOP, Vehicle Search
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the NMA’s Driving Freedoms Magazine in the Fall of 2020. If you would like to receive the NMA’s quarterly magazine, join the NMA today! First of all, what is the difference between a roadblock and a checkpoint? A roadblock is a barricade set up by law enforcement to […]
Pennsylvania Goes Tollistic
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February 24, 2021
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E-ZPass, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Gas Tax, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, OOIDA, PENNSYLVANIA, PPP, Public Private Partnership, REVENUE GENERATION, TOLL, Toll Roads, TOLLING, tolls
Editor’s Note: After we posted this Tolling in America Blog, Car and Driver posted an article with a headline question: Can You Name the World’s Most Expensive Toll Road? and guess what? It is the great state of Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation decided this month to place tolls on nine bridges located on […]
The Danger of Digital License Plates
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January 28, 2021
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Digital License Plate, DMV, Eric Peters, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, LICENSE PLATE, SAFETY, SEAT BELT, Technology, TICKET FINES
Soon, your car will not only track you in real time and make sure you’re paid-up on your insurance and have all your “papers” in order, it will also try to sell you something. Digital license plates, approved for use in California, Arizona and most recently, Michigan, will replace the old metal plate that you controlled with an […]
ALPRs win the Day in the Virginia Supreme Court
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January 27, 2021
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ACLU, ALPR, FOIA, LICENSE PLATE, NMA, PRIVACY, PUBLIC RECORDS, VIRGINIA
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Newsletter #623 in December 2020. To receive the NMA weekly E-Newsletter, subscribe HERE today! Automatic License Plate Readers or ALPRs can detail a motorist’s comings and goings without any thought of whether the person driving is suspected of nefarious activity. Some motorists around the country are challenging […]
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