April 30, 2023 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Ticket Enforcement,
Bus Lane Cameras,
CIVIL,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
Photo Enforcement,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL BUS CAMERA,
SPEED CAMERA,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET REVENUE By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research For the past few years, we’ve been monitoring a concerning trend in traffic enforcement: a steady shift towards more and more automated ticketing. Unfortunately, this trend appears to be gaining momentum. In California, we’ve witnessed a surge of bills introduced that attempt to authorize various forms of […]
January 8, 2023 • CIVIL,
CRIMINAL,
Discovery,
DMV,
Driver's License,
DUE PROCESS,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEVADA,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OREGON,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
Traffic Tickets On January 1st, Nevada became the latest state to remove the threat of a criminal charge for motorists who can’t pay fines for minor traffic violations. The new law has downgraded these minor infractions from criminal misdemeanors to civil violations with civil penalties. This change only applies to low-level traffic tickets, not to tickets like reckless […]
June 19, 2022 • CAF,
CHECKPOINT,
CIVIL,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INDIANA,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
Traffic stops Initially created to take down drug lords, civil asset forfeiture has morphed into an excuse by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to confiscate cash and other property regardless of whether a person is charged with a crime. The Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled that the government must prove it is ‘entitled’ to keep […]
June 27, 2021 • Automated Ticket Enforcement,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
CIVIL,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
Red-Light Cameras,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
Traffic Tickets When will Ohio municipalities ever learn? The Ohio Supreme Court has been working overtime on automated enforcement cases brought by motorists against cities and townships across the state. Justice would be better served if the state prohibited ticket cameras altogether. The difficulty is that the larger cities in Ohio have home-rule authority, i.e., they set […]
December 20, 2020 • ACLU,
ALPR,
CIVIL,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOIA,
LICENSE PLATE,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
PUBLIC RECORDS,
VIRGINIA 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 ALPR tracking in court. The latest dispatch comes from Virginia. In 2015, motorist Harrison Neal started his legal battle over the Fairfax […]
