December 3, 2017 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
LICENSE PLATE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
WASHINGTON D.C. By Gary Biller, NMA President Enabled by contributors to our Spring 2017 Campaign, the NMA is pursuing its 2017-18 National Legislative Agenda in Washington. More precisely the current focus is on two of the agenda items – eliminating federally funded ticket blitzes and restricting the bounds of civil asset forfeiture. Part 2 of this newsletter […]
November 5, 2017 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET QUOTA,
TICKET REVENUE,
VIRGINIA With great thanks to advocate Joe Bahen, the NMA played an active role in the development of the 2012-2016 Virginia Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). With the SHSP for the next five years now moving into the implementation phase, Joe continues to work with state officials to craft a safety roadmap that is effective and […]
August 6, 2017 • DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MUTCD,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NTSB,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
TICKET REVENUE by Gary Biller, NMA President Why does the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) want to change its goal of providing legitimate highway safety research into an advocacy of ever-present, for-profit enforcement aimed primarily at safe drivers who are endangering no one? In a sweeping set of recommendations from its July 25, 2017 public meeting, the […]
On February 9th we released NMAlerts, the enforcement activity app featured in the Winter 2017 issue of Driving Freedoms – the one with the Wizard of Oz meme on the cover. NMAlerts is a new benefit available only to supporting members of the NMA. We have had a lot of fun beta-testing the new app […]
May 29, 2016 • ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LOUISIANA,
MARYLAND,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE Red-light cameras are the biggest local boondoggle ever. Lafayette, Louisiana was recently in the news because the city-parish council decided to extend their red-light camera program another year despite the fact that $12.4 million dollars had not been collected on over 211,000 photo enforced tickets since the program’s inception nine years ago. But the story […]
