116 Alerts From the CALIFORNIA Tag

NMA E-Newsletter #169:The Latest Generation of Traffic Busy Bodies

April 2, 2012 • CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LASER, NEWSLETTER, RADAR DETECTOR, SPEED LIMIT, SPEED TRAP

The police have a long history of enlisting citizens to assist with routine law enforcement tasks. Everyone is familiar with police-sponsored neighborhood watch programs, and many communities train volunteers to monitor traffic (complete with rada…

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NMA E-Newsletter #163 – DNA Sampling for Motorists: The Latest Threat to Privacy

February 19, 2012 • CALIFORNIA, CELL PHONE, DNA, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, ILLEGAL SEARCH, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, TRAFFIC STOP

Drivers face all kinds of threats to their privacy, and one area sure to garner increasing scrutiny is the collection of DNA samples during traffic stops. A recent example comes from California with the case of People v. Thomas. Motorist Troy Cors…

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NMA E-Newsletter #161 – Ticket Amnesty Schemes: Misguided and Perpetual

February 5, 2012 • CALIFORNIA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LICENSE, NEWSLETTER, TEXAS, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE

Policymakers love to use amnesty programs to demonstrate their magnanimity toward perceived rule-breakers or, more likely, to encourage them to fork over some of what they owe. Typical amnesty programs target things like delinquent taxes, overdue …

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NMA E-Newsletter #154: Will We Never Learn?

December 18, 2011 • CALIFORNIA, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, INSURANCE, LOUISIANA, MINNESOTA, NEWSLETTER, TEXTING, WASHINGTON

The feds are at it again. Anyone following the news last week almost certainly ran across a headline like this one from CNN.com: “NTSB recommends full ban on use of cell phones while driving.” In the frenzy to report this story, CNN and other medi…

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NMA E-Newsletter #152: Gotcha! When Politicians Do Good

December 4, 2011 • CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, TRAFFIC CAMERA

At the NMA we spend a lot of time documenting the misinformation, demagoguery and outright hypocrisy that pervade the pronouncements of public officials when it comes to red-light cameras. So when we catch politicians doing right by their constitu…

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