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 […]
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NMA Lobbying in DC, Part 1 – Reeling in Traffic Enforcement: NMA E-Newsletter #464
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.
Next Generation Police Tools: NMA E-Newsletter #462
November 19, 2017 • BODY CAMERAS, BREATHALYZER, civil asset forfeiture, CIVIL FORFEITURE, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, INDIANA, NEBRASKA, NEWSLETTER, ROADBLOCK, SAFETY, TRAFFIC STOP, WASHINGTON D.C., X-RAY SCANNER
Traffic enforcement continues to go high tech beyond just the newest drone technology. Here are three recent examples of how police are using federal and state funding – some from assets seized from citizenry – to patrol motorists. Police Body Cameras In late October, results from a large study on police body cameras was released […]
Lane Courtesy or Law–A California Cultural Examination: NMA E-Newsletter #439
June 11, 2017 • CALIFORNIA, DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, LANE COURTESY, MARYLAND, NEW JERSEY, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PENNSYLVANIA, ROUNDABOUT, SPEED LIMIT, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON D.C.
from Norman Risch, NMA California Member While the NMA has been increasingly promoting left lane courtesy for years, I can compare several states in which I have lived or worked. California is far worse than Maryland, DC, or Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and most other Eastern states in left and right lane courtesy (not that any […]
DHS Moves to Restrict Travel: NMA E-Newsletter #365
January 10, 2016 • Driver's License, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, MINNESOTA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, Real ID, TSA, WASHINGTON D.C., WISCONSIN
Sometime this year the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will likely begin restricting the rights of U.S. citizens to travel freely throughout the country. At the end of last year DHS announced that sometime in 2016 it may require airline passengers to present either a traditional passport or Real ID-compliant identification to board a domestic […]
IIHS Shills for Camera Industry: NMA E-Newsletter #347
September 6, 2015 • Corruption, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, INSURANCE, MARYLAND, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SAFETY, SHORT YELLOW LIGHT, SPEED CAMERA, TICKET CAMERA, TRAFFIC CAMERA, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON D.C., YELLOW LIGHT TIMING, YELLOW LIGHTS
In its 30-page report issued last week about the Montgomery County, Maryland, speed camera program, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) does its best to revive a reeling camera industry. The use of red-light cameras has been declining for a couple of years now in no small part due to corrupt actions by one […]
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