Photo Enforcement Behind: Speed Cameras on the Way Out?
Arizona Department of Public Safety's photo radar experiment is in jeopardy because of a few (thousand) unpaid tickets. 76 cameras have racked up more than 700,000 tickets in the past year, and yet the total revenue is under 1/3 of the total fines issued and is having little effect on the state's budget shortfall. A similar pilot program in Pinal County was scrapped over a year ago in lieu of hiring more deputies, having "failed miserably" according to Sheriff Paul Babeu. Even Redflex, the (Australian) contractor who built and installed the cameras, is more than $10 million in the red. Local advocacy groups are petitioning for a ballot initiative banning all photo radar, but their adversary may defeat itself before November.
Student Experts would like to take this opportunity to reiterate your constitutional rights, notably the concept of Notice. Service of process is required for any criminal accusation, and unless you waive this right by signing the ticket they mail you (you shouldn't) they are required to serve you a court summons in person. Due process is not the only means of avoiding citation, and driving the speed limit is the easiest. There is no need to resort to a volley of gunfire when a monkey mask has gotten one valley WRX owner out of 37 tickets. Proof can prove quite burdensome indeed…
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