October 4, 2020 • ARKANSAS,
CALIFORNIA,
Car Care,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
MARYLAND,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MICHIGAN,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
Search Warrant,
VIRGINIA,
Voting The November 3rd election day is a month away, and mail-in voting has already begun in many states. If you have not cast your ballot yet, be sure to consider motorists’ rights issues in your decisions on which candidates and issues to support. Check out the NMA’s Motorists Vote 2020 Guide (a slideshow with a […]
July 19, 2020 • ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA,
CIVIL,
civil asset forfeiture,
CRIMINAL,
Driver's License,
Eighth Amendment,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IDAHO,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MICHIGAN,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
Traffic Tickets None of us ever want a traffic ticket, but at least many of us can afford to deal with the ticket either by fighting it or paying the fine. You might believe that if you violate a traffic law, no allegedly about it, you should pay the fine. But what if the only recourse for […]
By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog What does gridding mean? The Arizona Mirror recently described it this way: “As part of the training for the ALPR (automated license plate readers) systems, Chandler police officers are taught to “grid” neighborhoods during their downtime – systematically driving up and down every street in an area, indiscriminately […]
June 16, 2019 • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL,
COLORADO,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GEORGIA,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
TEXAS,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL,
TRAFFIC STOP,
Traffic Tickets,
WISCONSIN This time of year, many state legislatures have wrapped up their yearly bills, but courts never stop. Here are just some of the cases we have been tracking. The Colorado Supreme Court recently declared that an alert by a drug-sniffing police dog to detect marijuana and other drugs no longer provides probable cause for a […]
April 7, 2019 • ALPR,
Bicycle,
CALIFORNIA,
Congestion Pricing,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
MASS TRANSIT,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
OREGON,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
Scooter,
TOLL,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
UTAH,
VMT Tax By 2021, New York City will begin charging drivers who enter Manhattan below Central Park under the guise of congestion pricing. No one is surprised. City and state officials have been trying to make this happen for years. The rare alignment of views between the governor, the mayor, and the state legislature─each likely motivated by […]
