National Motorists Association Blog

Curated by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director

The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion.  

We love to hear from you about the report. Please feel free to comment below the post.

ATE Racket Report Stories of the Week

• NYC school zone speed cameras ticket 1 million motorists in 3 months (NMA mention)
• Opinion: When ‘Big Brother’ Isn’t Scary Enough

National ATE Racket Report Stories

• American Civil Liberties Union sues FBI over facial recognition secrecy
• Did Police Body Cameras Backfire?
• Automated Traffic Camera Company Sensys America Inc. Changes Name to NovoaGlobal Inc.

International ATE Racket Report Stories

• Opinion: We’re Being Blinded to the Danger of Facial Recognition
• How Australia’s Mobile Phone Detecting Cameras Will Work
• Australia: State of New South Wales to remove speed camera warning signs
• France to triple its arsenal of ‘super speed cameras’ by 2020
• UK Watchdog demands new legal code to protect public from ‘invasive’ facial recognition technology

TheNewspaper.com ATE Racket Report Stories

• US Senate Minority Leader Promotes Bus Cameras
• France, Germany, Italy: Speed Cameras Destroyed, Blocked, Blinded
• Ohio Judge Suppresses Results Of Anti-Speed Camera Election

MassPrivatel Blog

• Weekly Privacy and Civil Rights News Headlines for November 11, 2019
• Surveillance Capitalism and Social Media Surveillance in America
• Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities will create a For-Profit Social Credit System that Controls Judges and Police

Regional and Local ATE Racket Report Stories

California

• Bakersfield PD officers to start wearing body cameras
• Salinas’ red-light cameras live, but drivers have 30-day grace period till $500 tickets

Georgia

• Around 11,000 cameras watch over Atlanta

Illinois

• Red-light camera ban pushed by more state lawmakers (HB 3927)

New Mexico

• Albuquerque city council votes to write off $21M in unpaid red-light camera fines (video report)

Ohio

• New case challenges Toledo camera program in the OH Supreme Court

Pennsylvania

• NMA Advocate Letter-to-the-Editor: Speed cameras in work zones don’t increase safety

Rhode Island

• Providence withholding payments to speed camera operator

Tennessee

• Gatlinburg considers license plate readers to log traffic habits, fight crime

Washington State

• Letter-to-the-Editor: Traffic cameras are about revenue, not safety

That’s this week’s ATE Racket Report. If you want to fight automated traffic enforcement or ATE in your town, county, or state, check out these NMA resources:

Check out the NMA Facebook Page called the ATE Racket Report

We are currently building a closed Facebook Group called the ATE Racket Report Discussion Group for local and state activists to have a space to discuss best practices and ask questions.

Here are links to several NMA Issue Pages:

• Red-Light Cameras
• Speed Cameras

Also, here are a number of NMA Blogs posts that might be of interest!

• 10 Reasons to Oppose Red-Light Cameras
• How to fight Red-Light Cameras in Your Neck of the Woods
• Build a Ballot Petition Campaign against Red-Light Cameras
• The “Gold Standard” for Red-Light Camera Accident Analysis
• The Truth About Speed Cameras: They Don’t Work
• Ticket Cameras Create Major Due Process Concerns