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Saturday, March 23, 2013

re Red-Light Cameras: Greedy FL cities, Tallahassee-based lobbyists, FL League of Cities and Lake Worth Sen. Jeff Clemens lead effort to gut proper yellow-light timing, gut Motorist's Rights, and gut effort to lower Red-Light Camera fines; Naturally, Sen. Gwen Margolis is not part of the reform and increased safety effort but rather the team intent on keeping dollars flowing into cities at all costs


WJHG-TV/Panama City, FL video: Red Light Camera Changes Shot Down
Posted: Thu 5:24 PM, Mar 21, 2013A A  
Updated: Thu 9:26 PM, Mar 21, 2013Back to News
http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/Red-Light-Camera-Changes-Shot-Down-199438831.html

The following blog post combines certain portions of an email I sent out early Friday morning after spotting various versions of stories 
on my blog's Google Reader about how Florida state Sen. Joe Abruzzo's SB 1342 proposal fared in the Senate Transportation Committee Thursday morning in Tallahassee.

It also incorporates information from earlier news stories I'd kept under wraps on attempts in various states to set minimum lengths of time for yellow traffic lights to display before a red light appears, per the continuing controversy in Chicago previously mentioned here on the blog on November 24, 2012, one of my most-popular posts:

More Red-Light Camera shenanigans: National Journal's Mike Magner has warning for U.S. drivers about unscrupulous cities' amber-colored money trap: Yellow means Green & $$$ - "Dreaded Yellow Light May Be Trap for Traffic Violations" -on purpose. And Rahm Emanuel's Chicago, with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., is the most brazen of all

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-red-light-camera-shenanigans.html

Just to reiterate, the FHWA's "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices," i.e. Federal regs require that a yellow light be at least 3-6 seconds in length. 
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/

Despite lots of lip service, Florida cities, especially those located in South Florida, like Hallandale Beach where I live, do NOT want longer yellow/amber times on their traffic signals because this would necessarily result in giving motorists more time to continue thru the intersection or to come to a complete stop, which would mean less speeding and red-light running ticket fees for their hurting bottom line. 
Plain and simple, the cities have become addicts for those fines and will do anything to keep getting their fix, and that's nowhere more true than in Hallandale Beach. Especially cities that take their marching orders from the taxpayer-subsidized Florida League of Cities, which Mayor Cooper was recently the head of. 

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Tampa Bay Times Buzz politics blog 
Red light camera fines survive in Senate
By  Michael Van Sickler, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
March 21, 2013 1:05pm
 Red light runners would have paid less for getting violations and had more time to pay them under SB 1342 by Sen. Joe Abruzzo, D-Wellington, but the lobbying muscle of the agencies and governments that produce revenue from the fines overturned it.
If approved, the bill would have reduced fines from $158 to $100 and given violators 90 days to respond rather than the current 30 days.
Read the rest of the post at: http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/red-light-camera-fines-survive-in-senate/2110424

Given her past track record and ardently pro-government/anti-citizen sensibility, it's no surprise that Northeast Miami-Dade's very own Sen. Gwen Margolis supported the unhelpful Clemens amendment to keep cities rolling in the dough and not create a longer yellow light to actually do something about safety.

As has been mentioned here on the blog more than a few times, Margolis once famously suggested that it might be necessary to make the William Lehman Causeway/Bridge in Aventura -a bridge connecting the beach area of Sunny Isles to the mainland (and hospitals) that was needed decades before it was finally builta pay/toll bridge.

For many years, Margolis has been doing the bidding of the City of Aventura -the city just south of Hallandale Beach- on behalf of their red-light camera operation, which unlike Hallandale Beach's money-grab, at least has the benefit of having large signs that mention that it's the handiwork of Aventura, so there's no confusion on who'd doing it.

Here are the two scenarios that the folks at American Traffic Solutions, the Arizona-based vendor who's been fervently pushing them across South Florida, and even tried to co-opt Broward County into sharing their physical resources so they could piggyback at still more locations, along with their army of lobbyists and cronies at the Florida League of Cities are most afraid of:

a,) passage of the bill for complete repeal, CS/HB 4087
http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/4087/Analyses/ma8BkhAmaAbhZG7qzRPSDC6p4Z8=%7C7/Public/Bills/4000-4099/4087/Analysis/h4087a.EAC.PDF
or, b.) the Florida Supreme Court ruling them illegal:
Sunshine State News
Florida Supreme Court to Hear Red Light Camera Cases, Could Refund Millions of Dollars
By Eric Giunta, November 14, 2012 3:55 AM
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/florida-supreme-court-hear-red-light-camera-cases-could-refund-millions-dollars


Miami NewTimes
Freedom fighter Richard Masone takes on red-light cameras in South Florida 
By Gus Garcia-Roberts, June 24 2010
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-06-24/news/red-light-cameras-are-now-legal-in-south-florida/

After watching the videos and the articles above, some of you might want to consider contacting the city attorney and police chief in your own city and ask what the minimum yellow light-change interval time is and when it was last verified.
And while you are at it, ask what the city's official standard is for legal right turns on red.




Red light camera in Hallandale Beach has some seeing red

Uploaded July 8, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wl8xGKzfTU

That goes double for taxpayers and residents here in Hallandale Beach, with two red-light cameras, at Hallandale Beach Blvd. & U.S.-1 and the one near Hallandale Beach Blvd. & N.W. 9th Court, and whether they have been adjusted properly since initial installation to meet the standard cited in this bill.

Given that the city and HBPD would NOT publicly release their own statistics about tickets for speeding and red-light running in this city at the locations where the devices were eventually placed -which should have been where the highest incidents were, right?- prior to the adoption of tehm, you have very good reason to cast more than a little doubt on what you'd hear.
But contact them anyway and see what they say and let me know at hallandalebeachblog-at-gmail-dot-com

I ask this because everyone who has been paying attention here knows that it took FDOT well over a year AFTER a HB-controlled red-light camera was installed on west-bound Hallandale Beach Blvd. & N.W. 9th Court, near the IHOP, to actually place legible warning signs where they could be seen by drivers, instead of being hidden behind trees -on a block lacking any street lights- per my many complaints.

Here's the bill that was proposed but then gutted by Sen. Jeff Clemens

http://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Committees/2012-2014/TR/MeetingRecords/MeetingPacket_2152_2.pdf

The action described in the articles/posts above can be seen at the hearing's video  

http://www.flsenate.gov/media/videoplayer.cfm?EventID=2443575804_2013031257
starting at the 85:47 mark thru 109:49

Thinking about this causes me to wonder why HBPD STILL insists on placing police officers conducting old-fashioned speed-traps on relatively little-traveled W. Dixie Highway and First Avenue and NOT where the speeding cars in this town actually are -on Federal Highway?

IF public safety is really the number-one concern, why does it seem that most of the actual speeders ever caught, usually in front of Gulfstream ParkRace Track & Casino's S.E. 3rd Street entrance, are caught almost always by Aventura Police, not HBPD?

Hmm-m...

In a related news, DO try this at home: 

Go to http://www.crimemapping.com/map/fl/hollywood

Then place your cursor on the + part of the zoom-in/zoom-out function on the right until its as close as possible.
Now place the cursor on the - sign and click it five times.
Focus the map so that Aventura is not shown.
And there in front of you will be the evidence of what constitutes the most-common link of most crime in HB and Hollywood: Federal Highway/U.S.-1.
Okay, so book 'em and read 'em their Miranda Rights...

By the way, not that this will surprise you, but almost five months later, nobody from either upper management or on the Editorial Board of at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel ever responded to my direct questions last year about why they asked HB Mayor Joy Cooper, the former head of the Florida League of Cities, to write an essay re Red-Light Cameras for their Op-Ed section, given her 2012 campaign contributions from American Traffic Solutions.


That email was posted here as

When are Broward County residents FINALLY going to get the "whole truth" from the Tribune Company's South Florida Sun-Sentinel and some public explanation for their continued reluctance to report it and useful context in Broward County news? Their problems with facts & bias are getting worse by the month; Joy Cooper's red-light camera friends and supporters; Sun-Sentinel's pro-Debbie Wasserman-Schultz bias is a continuing insult to readers; @MayorCooper


http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/when-are-broward-county-residents.html

My own guess is that a large part of the Sun-Sentinel's refusal to respond to me and address those reasonable concerns stems from the fact that they were embarrassed to have me publicly point out that they were NOT smart enough to ask Mayor Cooper 
 BEFORE they agreed to publish her red-light propaganda, whether or not she'd already received or anticipated receiving any campaign contributions from ATS, or whether the Florida League of Cities has received any money from them.

The news paper didn't mention those obvious questions or ethical concerns in or near what she wrote, even though they are the very sort of obvious questions that should've been asked, with answers shared with readers.
Bit they didn't do that.

For more on the topic of Red-Light Cameras in Hallandale Beach, and photo examples of where the warning signs were placed -out-of-sight- see:
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Traffic%20Solutions




Red Light Ticket Capital YouTube Channelhttp://www.youtube.com/user/MrBFagel

Section 316 of the Florida Statutes, the State Uniform Traffic Control Law:

Friday, May 17, 2013

In Florida, red-light camera supporters at FDOT HQ tinker with yellow-light timing and make FL roads MORE UNSAFE -but more profitable for greedy cities- while in Chicago, the city's Inspector General has blasted the city's red-light ticket program (designed by Redflex) after an audit, saying that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "City Hall cannot back up claims that its controversial red-light camera program is designed to make intersections safer"; $100 Million in revenue in FL off of red-light cameras!

City Hall cannot back up claims that its controversial red-light camera program is designed to make intersections safer, according to a watchdog's report released Tuesday.

Now THAT'S how you start a news article about a municipal government intentionally engaging
in fraud to keep propping-up a program largely for revenue!
And it isn't even Hallandale Beach, though it would be equally true if an audit was done here.

Chicago Tribune
Inspector general blasts red light ticket program
By Hal Dardick, Clout Street, 
6:42 p.m. CDT, May 14, 2013 
City Hall cannot back up claims that its controversial red-light camera program is designed to make intersections safer, according to a watchdog's report released Tuesday.
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said the city cannot provide documents to prove that the cameras went up at intersections with the most side-impact crashes. He also questioned why cameras remain at intersections with no recent history of such crashes, which the $100 ticket-issuing "cops-in-a-box" are designed to prevent.

A predicate for understsnding thsi IG report is my previous post of November 24th, 2012 on the shenanigans taking place in Chicago, titled, :
More Red-Light Camera shenanigans: National Journal's Mike Magner has warning for U.S. drivers about unscrupulous cities' amber-colored money trap: Yellow means Green & $$$ - "Dreaded Yellow Light May Be Trap for Traffic Violations" -on purpose. And Rahm Emanuel's Chicago, with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., is the most brazen of all

So when will we see this sort of news headline about Hallandale Beach's red-light camera program that for years has been Exhibit A for South Florida municipal governments greed and willingness to look the other way on public safety, and as was the case here, the Police Dept.s refusal to make records public that would allow citizens to see whether the city was putting them where they'd do the most good or where they'd get the most revenue?

Or a reasonable explanation from FDOT District 4 Secretary James Wolfe about why it took them a year to place a red-light camera warning sign somewhere on west-bound Hallandale Beach Blvd./State Road 858 near NW 9th Terr., that was actually visible to drivers, instead of the one that was hidden between palm trees, as photos I've taken and posted here for years have proven?

Or an explanation from Wolfe about why, YEARS LATER, there are STILL ZERO red-light camera warning signs on HBB/State Road 858 approaching U.S.-1/South Federal Highway in either direction, unlike the approaches to HBB at that same intersection?

Unbeknowst to most of you, some of us have actually been talking seriously about timing certain HB and Hollywood intersections with stop-watches to see if they even meet the federal DOT legal standards.
I'll be filming some of them this weekend if the weather looks okay. 

Why?
Because of what we already know and can see with our own eyes, and great enterprising reporting like this by Noah Pransky of WTSP-TV that proves what we've long thought: $100 Million in revenue in FL off of red-light cameras

Shorter yellow lights criticized as trap for drivers: A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida's rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines. Quoted in story: FL state Senator Jeff Brandes, FL state Rep. Ed Hooper, FL state Rep. Mike Fasano and FL state Senator Jack Latvala.
http://www.floridatoday.com/videonetwork/2384133376001/Shorter-yellow-lights-criticized-as-trap-for-drivers

Florida quietly shortens yellow lights, resulting in more red light camera tickets
Noah Pransky, WTSP-TV, Tampa/St. Petersburg

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hallandale Beach civic activist Csaba Kulin asks some reasonable questions re red-light camera laws as applied in HB, Broward County & Florida

Below is an email about Traffic Infraction Detectors, what we all call red-light cameras, that my friend and fellow Hallandale Beach and Broward civic activist Csaba Kulin penned earlier today to Broward County Commissioners Sue Gunzburger of District 6 and Barbara Sharief of District 8.

As you know from my many previous posts here on the subject of legislative redistricting, despite its relatively small size in the southeast corner of Broward County, just north of Miami-Dade County and the City of Aventura, just as is the case for congressional representation in Washington, D.C. -Frederica Wilson and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz- this city is also -foolishly- divided for representation before the Broward County Commission up on Andrews Avenue, in downtown Fort Lauderdale.

http://www.broward.org/commission/Pages/default.aspx

District 6 map, Gunzburger:
http://gis.broward.org/maps/webPDFs/CommissionDistricts/comdist6.pdf

District 8 map, Sharief:
http://gis.broward.org/maps/webPDFs/CommissionDistricts/comdist8.pdf

The comments should be of interest to you regardless of whether or not you live in Hallandale Beach or Broward County, since in their own way, they get to the heart of the issue as these laws have been enacted and complied with here.

My next blog post, later today, will also be about red-light camera laws, their application, and next Tuesday's big vote before the Broward County Commission on whether those laws ought to be repealed.

To wit, is there any actual rhyme or reason for cities using red-light cameras and where they can be physically located regardless of facts, or a means of checking government over-reach and abuse?


Once they've had some time to respond, I'll of course post the commissioners responses to Csaba's comments here on the blog.

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Honorable Mayor Gunzburger,

During a recent private conversation with HB Commissioner Anthony Sanders and during the February 2, 2011 HB City Commission Meeting the topic of the more and more unpopular "red light" cameras came up. They were sold to the HB City Commission and the residents as a "safety" measure, we always knew it was a "money grabbing" device.

About one and a half years ago the first "red light" camera was installed on the SE corner of US 1 and Hallandale Beach Blvd. During this time about 2 million dollars of fines were levied primary affecting the residents east of US 1 turning right on red.
Recently another "red light" camera was installed on Hallandale Beach Blvd. and NW 10 Terrace, in front of IHOP, pointing westward. This camera by it's location will target residents of NW neighborhood turning right on red. Some of the residents of that area are already economically challenged and a $158.00 ticket would be significant hardship for them to face. That area technically is in Commissioner Sharief district of Hallandale Beach, so she may be also interested in the issue.

Commissioner Sanders voted for original "red light" camera ordinance and I have tried to convince him to reconsider his position in light of the new developments. His answer was that "if Hallandale Beach would repeal the "red light" camera ordinance
and remove the cameras the State of Florida or Broward County would install new "red light" cameras and get all the money".

During the February 2, 2011 HB City Commission Meeting the question came up again and the the police officer making a report gave a somewhat confusing answer. He just danced around the issue without giving the residents a clear and convincing answer.

I would appreciate your help, as far as you know, in answering the following questions:
  • Is the State of Florida allowed by current law to install "red light" cameras in cities not having their own cameras?
  • As far as you know, did the State install any "red light" cameras?
  • Is Broward County allowed by current law to install "red light" cameras in cities not having their own cameras?
  • Does Broward County intend to install "red light" cameras in cities not having their own cameras?
Sincerely,
Csaba Kulin
President, Fairways North, Inc.
Vice President, United Condominium Associations of Hallandale Beach

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See also

FDOT
Traffic Infraction Detectors (Red Light Running Cameras)
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/trafficoperations/Operations/RLRC.shtm

FDOT Traffic Infraction Detector Placement and Installation Specifications,
July 1, 2010
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/trafficoperations/Doc_Library/PDF/Traffic%20Infraction%20Detector%20Placement%20and%20Installation%20Specifications%20July%201,2010.pdf

Speed and Red Light Camera Laws
:

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/auto_enforce.html

Saturday, November 24, 2012

More Red-Light Camera shenanigans: National Journal's Mike Magner has warning for U.S. drivers about unscrupulous cities' amber-colored money trap: Yellow means Green & $$$ - "Dreaded Yellow Light May Be Trap for Traffic Violations" -on purpose. And Rahm Emanuel's Chicago, with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., is the most brazen of all


Red Light Ticket Capital YouTube Channel video: Confessions of a Chicago Red Light Ticketing Camera. Uploaded December 31, 2009. http://youtu.be/njbG6Yeg3s0 
And this video was made almost THREE YEARS ago!

More Red-Light Camera shenanigans: National Journal's Mike Magner has warning for U.S. drivers about unscrupulous cities' amber-colored money trap: Yellow means Green & $$$ - "Dreaded Yellow Light May Be Trap for Traffic Violations" -on purpose. And Rahm Emanuel's Chicago, with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., is the most brazen of all  

Now here's a story that someone like me who lives in the city that's the red-light camera poster boy of South Florida can really appreciate. 
A city where the mayor, Joy Cooper, writes guest Op-Eds in a local newspaper praising red-light cameras, despite it NOT leading to a reduction in traffic accidents, and weeks later, she's receiving thousands in campaign contributions from the vendor here with the red-light camera contract. Why? 
Because she and her Rubber Stamp Crew on the City Commission like the revenue it produce$! 


The National Journal
Dreaded Yellow Light May Be Trap for Traffic Violations
By Mike Magner
November 21, 2012 | 6:00 a.m.
Updated: November 21, 2012 | 9:19 a.m.
The National Motorists Association has a warning for the millions of drivers hitting the road for the busy holiday travel season: Beware of the yellow lights.
The timing of yellow lights on traffic signals at many intersections is purposely set to a minimum so more drivers can be ticketed for running red lights, says the 30-year-old activist group based in Waunakee, Wis.
Read the rest of the post at:
http://nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/dreaded-yellow-light-may-be-trap-for-traffic-violations-20121121


Red-light camera sign in Hallandale Beach, FL. April 24, 2011 photo by South Beach Hoosier. © 2012 Hallandale Beach Blog, All Rights Reserved

See my last blog post on red-light cameras from August 25th, 2012: 
City of Hallandale Beach prints analysis that refutes Mayor Joy Cooper's mendacious efforts on red-light cameras - "In summary, there is no safety benefit to the citizens, and there is no financial benefit to the taxpayer due to automated for-profit law"


One town's experience in New Jersey:
http://brick.patch.com/articles/red-light-cams-shut-down-over-yellow-light-length-concerns

To see more on the company at the center of the storm in Chicago, Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., see what the Chicago Tribune has been reporting on them, with one scandal after another - http://www.chicagotribune.com/search_results/?q=+Redflex 


Red Light Ticket Capital YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/MrBFagel

Saturday, August 25, 2012

City of Hallandale Beach prints analysis that refutes Mayor Joy Cooper's mendacious efforts on red-light cameras - "In summary, there is no safety benefit to the citizens, and there is no financial benefit to the taxpayer due to automated for-profit law"; @MayorCooper,


IhosvaniRodriguez video: Red light camera in Hallandale Beach has some seeing red.
This is the video accompanying South Florida Sun-Sentinel reporter Ihosvani Rodriguez's story of more than two years ago. Uploaded July 8, 2010. http://youtu.be/0wl8xGKzfTU

I was first informed of the existence of this very-thorough report on Friday evening by Hallandale Beach civic activist Etty Sims, whose common sense, hard work and dedication to this community continues to manifest itself in all sorts of tangible ways that improve the quality of life in this city.
I guess I don't have to tell you that I read it with very mixed emotions.

Pleased that its results and conclusion largely support what I and many other citizens in this community said two years ago -that Mayor Joy Cooper's efforts from the very beginning were contrary to good public policy, given that her real desire all along was increased revenue to the city, NOT increased public safety.

This point was first proven when the city refused to place the first one or the second one or...
at the places in this city where there was consensus that genuine safety problems existed.
Nope, they placed them where they could get the number$ they wanted that would make .
American Traffic Solutions happy.

As I said just a few weeks ago, that's precisely why ATS and its related entities have given the full amount they could to Mayor Cooper's re-election campaign coffers, shortly after she wrote 
this for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-07-22/news/fl-guest-cooper-cameras-mon0723-20120722_1_red-light-cameras-camera-program-red-light-runners
since she's running on November 6th against the one person on the HB City Commission who was honest enough and smart enough to see thru her pretense and artifice and vote NO, Keith London.

But while I was happy to see my points from two years ago correct all over again, I was disappointed that common sense was such a big loser in the first place two years ago, and that so many people in this community were willing to look the other way in order to get into or stay in the good graces of our thin-skinned and voluble mayor.

But here, like in many cities, there are always people want to be the mayor's buddies and apologists, and we certainly have more than our fair share in this city of under 40,000, including some former friends of mine.
Given the mayor's forceful personality but lackluster record, it's hardly surprising that so many of the butt-kissers and apologists for City Hall here are women, too.

As you can see for yourself, when you pop this URL, you will see the official HB graphics on the front page, too!


An Analysis of the City of Hallandale Beach Automated For-Profit Red Light Camera Program 
By Paul Henry 
August 18, 2012 

Despite a reduction in red light running crashes at the one intersection, this analysis has shown that the use of automated for-profit law enforcement devices has not increased the safety for the motoring public in the City of Hallandale Beach, Florida. To the contrary, from a safety perspective, the number of crashes for both intersections where it has been placed in 
use have increased, with significant increases at one intersection. There were no fatal crashes. 
A review of extended data for one intersection showed the same red light running crash 
reduction from 2008-2009 with no device use.

Read the rest of the report at:
http://retiredpublicsafety.com/documents/rlc/analysis/FL/Analysis_HB_RLC.pdf

So, two years later, after all the tires have been kicked and all the real numbers have been put to the test and been checked and double-checked, it seems that all the things that I wrote here on the blog about red-light cameras in Hallandale Beach, and which Hallandale Beach civic activist Csaba Kulin, HB Commissioner Keith London and thousands of other HB citizens made clear thru their overwhelming response to the city's own survey, have been proven 100% correct.

And who, using actual facts, has been proven wrong not only on the facts, but on the policy? 
Mayor Joy Cooper and her past and current Rubber Stamp Crew of Dotty Ross, Bill Julian, Anthony A. Sanders and Alexander Lewy, and Police Chiefs Magill and Fluornoy.
And the Florida League of Cities and American Traffic Solutions...

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The most recent posts of mine on the subject of red-light cameras in Hallandale Beach are here for your perusal. But there are earlier ones not listed here, so keep that in mind:

Jul 24, 2012
There's still LOTS of interest in Red-Light Cameras and Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper's self-serving behavior: i.e. City of Hallandale Beach's fact-free, heavy-handed imposition of RLCs by Cooper and her Rubber ...

Jul 23, 2012
The galling audacity of the feckless Sun-Sentinel giving free space to thoroughly-mendacious Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, 16 weeks before the election, or her stridently self-serving lies re Red-Light cameras in ...

Oct 11, 2011
Below are some photos of a self-evident fact that I and many tens of thousands of other Hallandale Beach and Hollywood residents have known about ever since the red-light camera was installed on Hallandale Beach Blvd.

Sep 25, 2011
Commissioner London makes a motion to remove RED LIGHT Traffic Cameras in accordance with the recommendations from the city-wide survey – NO SECOND. · Three Islands Safe Neighborhood District - $357,000 in this ...

Jun 08, 2011
Staffers also said they are getting less than anticipated from the city's red light-camera program, a gambling revenue-sharing compact with the Seminole Tribe, and a number of state funds. Forrester vowed to keep a closer eye ...

Feb 24, 2011
No, as we've all suspected from the get-go, in this particular city, those red-light cameras are where they are because in this city -as opposed to the rationale of other cities that may actually let self-evident facts guide their ...

Thursday, March 31, 2011

No red-light camera meetings at Broward County Commission until after FL legislative session ends -if then; SB 672

There will be no continuation of the rather-heated discussion on red-light cameras in Broward County at the County Commission until AFTER the current 90-day legislative session in Tallahassee is concluded -if then.

Basically, at Tuesday's Broward County Comm. meeting, in reference to another question, Comm. Sue Gunzburger, acting in her role as the presiding officer or "mayor," said that there wouldn't be a meeting to follow-up on that rather amazing March 1st meeting that I -unfortunately- missed seeing in person but watched via streaming, that had so many people amused and appalled in equal measures.

(That was the meeting where large mayoral egos collided, as Hallandale Beach mayor
Joy Cooper and Pembroke Pines mayor Frank Ortis continually jockeyed to respond via the public microphone to various commissioner's hardball questions and prodding for more information about their respective city's program, and what was and wasn't done in the name of safety. And, of course, the larger issue of whether or not it was all just a smoke-screen to conduct a money-grab in the case of Hallandale Beach's infamous red-light camera on U.S.-1
and Hallandale Beach. Blvd.

My post on that March 1st meeting:

My own little red-light camera 'rainout' at the Broward County Commision this morning; HB begins phase two of red-light camera money-grab today
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-own-little-red-light-camera-rainout.html)

The reason is because the whole issue could well be moot by this summer since there is a very reasonable chance that given the sentiment towards outlawing them, the FL legislature will make that law allowing them a one-year wonder and repeal them.


Florida SB 672
, sponsored by Sen. Rene Garcia of Hialeah, would repeal last year's law allowing red-light cameras, moved out of the Senate Transportation Comm. in a 4-2 vote on Wednesday.

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/672


Voting to keep red-light cameras:
Arthenia Joyner and Lizbeth Ben­acquisto.

Next up for the bill is the Senate Community Affairs Comm.

http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/CA/


Comm. members include:
Chair -Senator Michael S. "Mike" Bennett (R)
Vice Chair -Senator Jim Norman (R)

* Senator Paula Dockery (R)
* Senator Anthony C. "Tony" Hill, Sr. (D)
* Senator Garrett Richter (R)
* Senator Jeremy Ring (D) of Margate
* Senator Ronda Storms (R)
* Senator John Thrasher (R)
* Senator Stephen R. Wise (R)

Sen. Garcia
is widely-expected to run for mayor of Hialeah later this year, as current mayor Julio Robaina is among those actively running for Miami-Dade County mayor in the race to succeed recalled mayor Carlos Alvarez.


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Bill to repeal red-light cameras squeaks by first Senate panel
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/03/29/2983459/bill-to-repeal-red-light-cameras.html


Brent Batten:
Red light cameras keep company in the black

Posted March 28, 2011 at 4:34 p.m.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/mar/28/brent-batten-red-light-cameras-legislature-672/

http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/30/red-light-cameras-at-risk-in-f

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Our friend, Hastighetslotteriet, or The Speed Camera Lottery: The fun theory works in Stockholm, but NOT in Joy Cooper's Hallandale Beach, Red-light Camera Central



Hastighetslotteriet - Rolighetsteorin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9wMoK0Gxcs

With Swedish subtitles

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The Speed Camera Lottery - The Fun Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynzHWwJXaA
In English


Today's blog post features one of the many interesting public policy ideas that I've had waiting in cold storage in Draft for a few weeks that's finally coming out to play, with more set to come out over the weekend as it gets warmer -until Tuesday's cold front, which may require me wearing some IU sweatshirts while out and about for the first time since February.

Ideas like transportation policy in an auto-centric region of the country like South Florida, where locally, I travel on F-rated roads; traffic synchronization as an overdue dream that never quite becomes a reality because of bureaucracy; South Florida cities using legitimate safety concerns as the raison d'être to install red-light cameras, and then completely ignoring the evidence that they aren't making the community any safer but are expanding the program nonetheless in order to male their individual city halls a tidy sum, or in Hallandale Beach's case, a windfall...



While the sort of positive reinforcement and appeal to the best in human behavior that this Volkswagen-sponsored video demonstrates could conceivably work as an experiment in democratic and orderly Stockholm, here in chaotic South Florida, the land of people who adamantly refuse to follow even the simple common sense rules at grocery stores in order to utilize the 'express line' -ten or less items- in my opinion, it's far too logical and optimistic to ever work in South Florida.

(Or, anywhere in the Sunshine State, where the
Florida Sec. of Transportation is Stephanie Kopelousos, a woman I've previously mentioned and taken to task here in this space many times before. While in office, she has largely managed to avoid ever having to actually speak to Florida's beleaguered citizen taxpayers to justify what passes for transportation policy, instead of hob-nobbing with govt. officials or transportation industry types who only want one thing: taxpayer money.
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Stephanie%20Kopelousos
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/publicinformationoffice/moreDOT/mission.shtm)


That's especially the case in the South Florida of 2010 where
FDOT and Broward County and Miami-Dade government and the MPOs have proven for years that they are constantly unable to predict the all-too-predictable consequences to their efforts on road projects or so-called 'experiments.'
http://www.95express.com/
http://republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/file/TestimonyRailroads/2010-05-03-Kopelousos.pdf


That Broward County citizens reside in an area where there's a publicly-known level of pettiness, parochialism and maybe even unethical behavior, but which is ignored by local South Florida TV reporters, is just a reflection of how bad things are down here in terms of both civics and journalism: reporters, editors and producers too lazy to report on a story that is served up to them on a silver platter by the Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen.
http://www.browardbulldog.org/2010/09/whistleblower-probes-expose-bad-blood-behind-county-mpo-split/


That particular crowd is constantly being surprised at things that almost anyone who knows public policy -or who has common sense about both transportation policy and human behavior- could have told them was absolutely going to happen.
But they never see it coming around the corner, do they?

Instead, embarrassing policy debacles are inevitably followed by pronouncements from PIO's minimizing the jaw-dropping stupidity, forgetting the negative reinforcement that is taking place among the larger South Florida community as yet another govt. effort comes a cropper.

For instance, here
in Hallandale Beach, at the Southeast end of Broward County nestled next to the Atlantic Ocean, with Hollywood to the north and Aventura and Miami-Dade county to our south, we have what is arguably one of the most infamous red light camera in the country, on northbound U.S.-1/Federal Highway as it approaches Hallandale Beach Blvd.

Though it was supposedly installed in the name of maximizing public safety on the roads of one of the most traffic-congested corners of all of South Florida, where all the main roads are ALREADY rated F by FDOT using national methodologies and analysis, the actual result was NOT a noticeable increase in public safety at that intersection, but rather a license to print MONEY: $1.3 million in just seven months!

From one camera!


As Channel 4 News correctly noted on their July 13th newscast, which on their website they labeled Hallandale Beach Red Light Cam Generates Big Bucks "The one red light camera there is giving out an average of 700 more tickets every month than all 10 of Miami Beach's cameras combined."
http://miami.cbslocal.com/local/red.light.cameras.2.1802814.html

Unfortunately for my purposes here, that video is now no longer available.


Hallandale Beach Comm.
Keith S. London
, a friend of mine as most of you know, had it exactly right back in 2007 when the city commission voted 3-2 to pass this:

"The issue didn't come up during a public safety workshop," London said. "It came up during a budget meeting. This is strictly about revenues."



Red light camera in Hallandale Beach has some seeing red 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wl8xGKzfTU

Just to give you a sense of the numbers involved, in Hallandale Beach, red
-light camera revenue for July 2010: $119,613.98;
violations = 263 right turn on reds and 40 straight through intersection. I remind you, that's from just one camera.

After-the-fact, it's hard
NOT to think that the whole public safety issue dialogue that took place here prior to the red-light camera installation was nothing but a shell-game, and the city dealt
themselves Aces while dealing the public nothing but Jokers, as
by their own numbers, 94% of all the tickets initially given were for right-turn violations, NOT dangerous red-light runners on U.S.-1.

The fact that the busiest intersection in the entire city, literally, the choke point, is rarely if ever given any permanent police presence, as is common in many other cities at certain times, is a message to residents that City Hall's talk about public safety is just a smokescreen.


Further proof of that is that you are MUCH MORE likely to see Aventura Police giving tickets for speeding in front of Gulfstream Park or the Village at Gulfstream Park retail complex than you are to see them from HB Police, even though their own Police Dept. HQ is right across the street!
Trust me, I've got the photos to prove it, too.


The fact that HB City Hall was so wrong about the actual real world results doesn't cause them
to publicly question their earlier votes or even call for its removal.

Far from it!

HB and other South Florida cities that are making out like bandits, unlike has been the case recently in Oxfordhire, with few rare exceptions, has just stood pat and turned the legitimate safety concerns expressed by some citizens completely on their face, and exiled them to public policy Siberia, making their words difficult to hear with a straight face, even where it might be true.


In fact, just the other day, a good friend wrote me quite angrily in parts that he had watched the most recent HB City Commission via the web:

"I was surprised to hear during yesterday's HB City Commission meeting that two additional cameras are about to go into operation. It was the first time that I heard that the original agreement called for 3 cameras not one. So much for openness at City Hall."

In late July, I wrote an email to my usual crowd of friends, concerned civic activists, elected officials and some print and TV reporters alerting them to something that I had picked upon some three weeks earlier at a Hallandale Beach City Commission meeting that was discussing their infamous red-light camera, which I walk, bike or drive by a few times everyday, and which you may not know, I took photos of the day they installed it, because I knew what a lightning rod it would become.
And how!

Part of that was directly due to the city's lack of adequate publicity, compared to Aventura's, just down the road, with their huge sign and their warning period, which was discussed in newspapers and on local Miami TV newscasts for a few weeks before they started enforcing it.

That made for quite a contrast with Hallandale Beach's clumsiness, whose sign doesn't mention the city by name, only a drawing of a traffic light,
and which you don't even see until it is to your immediate right as you drive past it, obstructed as it is by a bus shelter, even though Broward County buses no longer use it. (Yeah, that's what passes for normal here.)


At this City Commission meeting, HB Police Chief Thomas A Magill -whom as most of you who come here frequently know, I loathe, to put it lightly- was going thru his paces in his verbal testimony from the dais to not only keep the status quo but expand upon it, echoing the usual BS about safety.


Then, rather amazingly, Magill said that there'd been an accident at that intersection recently, a fatality.

Well, this was news to me and everyone else in the Commission Chambers, so I leaned forward towards the seat in front of me to get a better listen, but nobody up on the dais commented on what
Magill said to get any more specifics, which seemed not only odd but counter-intuitive. 

But then this is Hallandale Beach, after all!


Finally, Comm. Keith London got his opportunity to speak on the subject and after some careful proddding, whether intentional or not, got Magill to admit that the accident he alluded to earlier with the fatality, actually happened elsewhere, at U.S.-1 and S.E. 3rd Street, right near the entrance to Gulfstream Park Race Track and the Village at Gulfstream Park retail complex, and HB City Hall, one short block away.

It actually had nothing at all to do with the red-light camera issue -the subject at hand.


It was classic mendacious Thomas Magill!


http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20A.%20Magill

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Thomas%20Magill

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel


HALLANDALE TO MOUNT RED-LIGHT CAMERAS -
3-2 VOTE APPROVES NEGOTIATIONS WITH INSTALLATION FIRM
Thomas Monnay Staff Writer
September 2, 2007

Run a red light? Soon the city will know.


The city is negotiating with American Traffic Solutions, of St. Louis, Mo., to install red-light cameras at some intersections.


"I've been fighting for it for three years," Mayor Joy Cooper said. "It's for safety reasons."
The decision to negotiate, approved Wednesday by a 3-2 vote, comes as Pembroke Pines works on a similar initiative with American Traffic. Palm Beach County officials are considering it as well.

Although Orange County and Gulf Breeze near Pensacola already have the cameras, the state refuses to endorse them, saying they violate people's privacy.

Supporters, however, say the cameras are no different than those the state installed at tollbooths to catch drivers not paying mandated fees.


"I don't look at this as a right-to-privacy issue," Vice Mayor Bill Julian said. "When we go through the tollbooths, our pictures are taken anyway. In the interest of public safety, I can't wait to see them. The sooner, the better."


Commissioner
Keith London, who opposed the decision, said cameras would cause more rear-end accidents by drivers who prematurely slam on their brakes to avoid running red lights.

"The issue didn't come up during a public safety workshop," London said. "It came up during a budget meeting. This is strictly about revenues."

He said the city should instead concentrate on improving intersections and synchronizing lights to help move traffic smoothly.
London said after the city works out a contract with American Traffic, it would pass a law allowing the cameras and resulting fine collections.

Still being resolved are how many cameras there would be and where they would be installed. Cooper said two key locations are the intersections of Hallandale Beach Boulevard with Dixie Highway and 10th Avenue.


Cooper said the cameras would be installed on private property since the state won't allow them on its rights of way.


Instead of a traffic citation, violators would be notified by mail of a city code violation and told to pay a $100 fine, Cooper said. Drivers wouldn't lose points on their license because the citations would be issued against vehicles involved in the violation, not their drivers.


"This will teach people to be better drivers," Julian said.


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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-07-10/news/fl-red-light-cameras-mayocol-b071110-20100709_1_red-light-cameras-dwayne-flournoy-easy-money

South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Rolling right turn could cost you $158 

Red-light cameras are helping Hallandale Beach raise $1 million
Michael Mayo, News Columnist
July 10, 2010

In theory, red-light cameras are supposed to be about safety, curbing reckless drivers from blowing through intersections at high speeds.

But the reality at one South Florida intersection seems more like a game of "Gotcha," with an astounding 93 percent of violations going to unwitting drivers making rolling right turns on red.

"This feels like a money grab," said Phil Kodroff, one of almost 11,000 drivers to get snagged by Hallandale Beach's red-light camera since it started snapping away in January.

The city's take by mid-June: almost $1 million.

"Let's be honest about it, we're here to gouge you," said Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London, an opponent of red-light cameras. "To say it's about public safety is pretty disingenuous. It's all about the revenue."

Love them or hate them, the cameras soon will become fixtures of South Florida life. Now that the devices have gotten the green light from the Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist, more cash-strapped cities will be turning to them for easy money.

In the past week, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Boynton Beach have moved forward with plans to install cameras.

They will join Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines and West Palm Beach, which already have cameras running. Royal Palm Beach installed cameras in November but has been issuing only warnings; fines likely will start by September.

Under the law that took effect July 1, fines for the first offense increased to $158 from $125, with the money now divided between the state and cities.

"The mentality of the South Florida driver is going to have to change," said Mark Antonio, interim city manager of Hallandale Beach.

Said Hallandale Beach Police Maj. Dwayne Flournoy: "It's the 'Halo effect.' If you get compliant at one intersection, your behavior will change at all the others."

Kodroff, of Hollywood, said his behavior has changed: He is avoiding Hallandale Beach's camera intersection at Federal Highway and Hallandale Beach Boulevard, along with the businesses on that corridor.

After a steak dinner at the Gulfstream Park casino complex May 22, Kodroff thought he had an uneventful drive home to his beachfront condo.

A month later, he opened his mail to find a $125 ticket.

His speed when he made the right on red onto Hallandale Beach Boulevard, according to the violation notice: "0."

"It's not sensible," Kodroff said. "I hit my brakes, I thought I came to a full stop."


Michael Mayo's follow-up blog post to this was:
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/mayo/blog/2010/07/with_redlight_cameras_does_yel.html
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BrowardPalmBeach New Times

Daily Pulp blog
Rolling Red-Light Camera Scourge Shames Miami-Dade
By Bob Norman,

July 24 2010 @ 6:05PM


Red-light cameras, when misused by idiotic and irresponsible public officials, can be one of the great scourges of America.
That much is fact. Even when they are used with some semblance of jurisprudence, they might be flat-out illegal. We'll just have to see how the court challenges turn out.

But in the wrong hands, they can be downright evil. Check out this Miami Herald story on the poor people of Aventura -- and all others who drive in that city -- who are getting shaken down by their own government for hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars. Their "crime": Rolling a red light on a right turn. You do it all the time even if you don't know it. You come up on an intersection, see there's no cars coming, and never quite come to a complete stop.


Read the rest of the post at:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/07/rolling_red-light_camera_scour.php

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Mayo on the Side blog of Broward news columnist Michael Mayo
Red-light cameras: Big drop in Hallandale Beach with new state law
By Michael Mayo
August 16, 2010 10:29 AM

Hallandale Beach's lone red-light camera has generated more than $1.3 million in fines since starting in January, but the latest monthly figures show a big decrease in violations for slow-rolling right turns with a new state law in effect.

Starting July 1, cities were no longer supposed to cite offenders who made right turns "in a careful and prudent manner."
Before July 1, cities could fine anybody who didn't come to a complete stop before an intersection.


Read the rest of the post at:
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/mayo/blog/2010/08/redlight_cameras_big_drop_in_h.html
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/09/1866038/red-light-violations-take-detour.html

Miami Herald
Red-light violations take detour into court

By David Ovalle
October 9, 2010



The video-camera footage showed Dean Dadic's BMW running a red light. Guilty, the judge decided. Aventura slammed Dadic with a $125 fine -- even though he produced paperwork showing he wasn't behind the wheel that day.
"I had no recourse, even though I proved I wasn't driving,'' Dadic complained after a recent hearing at Aventura City Hall, where the video screen warns motorists: "You must stop for all red lights.''
Thanks to a new state law, however, drivers like Dadic who contest controversial red-light violations in city halls across South Florida will soon have relief: In coming weeks, the hearings will shift from municipal control to regular traffic court, where violations will be harder to prove.
South Florida judges and lawyers believe traffic court will dispense fairer and more independent decisions -- along with basic due process that critics said was lacking.
Miami-Dade, for instance, will dismiss citations for two of the most common and controversial infractions: rolling right-hand turns where the driver attempts a "careful and prudent'' stop, and tickets against vehicle owners who prove they weren't behind the wheel.
Red-light cameras have been a hot-button issue since cities across Florida began installing cameras at intersections and then mailing municipal code violations to surprised drivers.
The number of cases figure to grow as the camera programs have expanded throughout South Florida, including Pembroke Pines, Hallandale Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, Hialeah, West Palm Beach and Miami Gardens. Coming soon: Hollywood and Davie.
Critics said the citations were heavy-handed cash grabs. A slew of lawsuits followed, and in February, a Miami-Dade judge ruled that Aventura's enforcement system -- the first in Miami-Dade -- circumvented state traffic laws. An appeal is pending.
But advocates, including Aventura officials, maintain that the red-light cameras are designed to reduce accidents rather than generate revenue, and say statistics back them up.
Since September 2008, when the cameras went up, crashes in Aventura dropped by 200, about 15 percent for the nearly two-year period ending Aug. 26.
"I think the results bear out the fact that the intent of the City Commission was always to put the [cameras] in for the safety of the motorists,'' City Manager Eric Soroka said.
In response to the uproar, the Florida Legislature passed a new law that made red-light camera infractions a state violation. The statute went into effect July 1, but cases are just now trickling into the state system.
In Miami-Dade, the court could receive about 50,000 new cases over the next year, according to County Court Judge Steve Leifman, head of the already taxed traffic division. Between five and 15 new hearing officers -- lawyers trained to preside over traffic citation cases -- will be hired at a combined salary of more than $70,000 for the first year.
Broward County, which so far has few operating red-light cameras, will devote one court session a week to its trickle of citations. No additional hearing officers will be hired unless cities operating cameras help defray the costs, said Broward County Judge Robert W. Lee, who oversees the traffic division.
The state law allows a police agency to issue citations to drivers who run red lights at intersections, using video cameras that capture the back of a vehicle. Citations are mailed to the registered owner of the car.
For 30 days, the $158 ticket remains just a fine. When it is paid, the money is split between the city that issued it and the state's general revenue fund. If a recipient fights or ignores it, the ticket morphs into a moving violation and has the potential to affect a motorist's driving record.
For now, cities are still holding hearings on citations that were issued before July 1. Held in government buildings, the hearings are lambasted by drivers as unfair and biased.
Arlene Segal, at the recent Aventura hearing, unsuccessfully argued against three violations for failing to stop while turning right on red.
"Officer, would you have stopped her if you had seen her?'' asked special master Raquel Rothman, a real estate and probate lawyer appointed by the city to preside over the cases.
"Yes, ma'am,'' replied a uniformed police officer, overlooking the conference room from behind a laptop-equipped podium.
Segal left with more than $600 in fines.
"The deck is definitely stacked against you,'' she said. ``It's intimidating for the average person.''
In the new setting at Miami-Dade's Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, 1351 NW 12th St., Judge Leifman hopes the process will be perceived as wholly independent. Hearing officers, who undergo 40 hours of special training, will preside from behind an elevated judicial bench.
A screen will be set up so that officers may present the video evidence. In Broward County, hearings will be held at Deerfield Beach courthouse, the only facility with space.
Leifman said fewer people will be found guilty of right-turn violations, because the new statute says a driver is in the clear as long as they ``turn in a careful and prudent'' manner.
And unlike the city hearings, Leifman said, defendants who can reasonably prove they were not behind the wheel won't be punished -- or pressured to identify the real driver.
"If someone didn't do it, my hearing officers are not likely to find them guilty if the state can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were the driver,'' Leifman said.
South Florida ticket attorneys, while happy the hearings are now in state court, still chafe at the camera concept. They say replacing the discretion of a live officer with a video camera will raise serious questions for appeal courts -- including how authorities notify alleged violators.
Drivers are not handed tickets by police officers, but are mailed citations. So if a mailing address is wrong, citizens could face a license suspension if the violation goes unpaid or uncontested.
Fort Lauderdale police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa, whose department operates red-light cameras at seven intersections, said citations are sent to the current registration address.
"At the end of the day, you assume responsibility for that car. People who are driving are not children -- they are responsible for making sure their registration, their licenses and their insurance is up to date,'' he said.
Regardless of the mechanics, traffic-ticket lawyers above all object to replacing a police officer with a video camera that only captures a vehicle's rear view.
Because no image of the driver is captured, the cameras unfairly force a vehicle owner to prove they weren't behind the wheel, said attorney Bret Lusskin, who successfully sued Aventura over its camera citations.
"The fact is, this turns American law on its head,'' he said. "A person who is accused of violating the law is presumed innocent until the state proves them guilty.''
Miami Herald staff writer Howard Cohen contributed to this report.

See also:

BBC

RAC Foundation report backs speed camera safety benefit
Speed camera Some councils have decided to get rid of their speed cameras because of a lack of funding

Some 800 more people a year could be killed or seriously injured on the UK's roads if all speed cameras were scrapped, a report has suggested.
Read the rest of the story at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11826295
See also:
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2010/07/rothstein_cops_pay_little_pric.php

http://redlightrevolt.com/


Keith London's official website: www.KeithLondon.com

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A story from KDVR-TV, Fox 31 in Denver




Photo Radar red light camera license plate spray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_e2BC_kXis


See also: http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/
Other finalist submissions and past Fun Theory videos
http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/finalister