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 […]
February 6, 2022 • Bicycle,
Bicyclist,
Complete Streets,
Corruption,
CROSSWALK,
DMV,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
infrastructure,
LEGISLATION,
MASS TRANSIT,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NSC,
PEDESTRIAN,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
speed limits,
Street Lights,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
VISION ZERO US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently announced that his department wants to drastically reduce deadly traffic accidents through vehicle and street design changes. The USDOT also plans to use $14 billion in funding from the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill to encourage the states to make extensive use of speed cameras to enforce lowered […]
January 2, 2022 • BODY CAMERAS,
CELL PHONE,
Digital Driver's License,
DMV,
Driver's License,
Drone,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
TICKET FINES,
TRAFFIC RECORD,
Traffic stops,
Traffic Tickets If you drive, you likely have a physical license indicating you passed a test and can legally drive on the nation’s roadways. After the September 11th attack 20 years ago, driver’s licenses became a primary form of identification if you wanted to fly domestically. Now, a driver’s license is once again being asked to do […]
For the first time, the NMA has developed a national guide for voting called, appropriately enough, Motorists Vote 2020. The confirming (and most important) step in any advocacy effort is signified by the casting a vote in local, state, and national elections. If you don’t have time to write letters to the editor or visit […]
June 21, 2020 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ACLU,
ALPR,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Biometrics,
CELL PHONE,
Contact Tracing,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DMV,
Drone,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMSL,
PRIVACY,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Street Surveillance,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE,
VISION ZERO The need to advocate for motorists’ rights has grown during the time of COVID. NMA members need to be more vigilant than ever in home communities and home states. This newsletter is a two-parter and comes from what we see trending nationally. This week, we look at speed limits, automated traffic enforcement, and street surveillance. […]
