The Maryland Senate has approved a bill to place limits on work zone and school zone speed cameras.
The vote was 46-0.
The bill eliminates what is called the “bounty system” where speed camera operators get paid a commission for each ticket issued.
Under this bill, the bounty system would be eliminated by 2017.
The bill also designates one person in each jurisdiction to review each ticket.
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AGAIN A UNANIMOUS VOTE. I find it hard to believe that nobody objected to anything inside this bill. Do Marylands representatives just work that well together on these topics or are they all simply receiving the same directives from the people that fund their extra curricular activities?
ReplyDeleteThe second thing. All the local governments in the state which profit from speed cameras have gotten togeter and written a bill which *pretends* to reform the system but without changing anything real.... *for the sole purpose of staving off real reform promped by what has happened in Baltimore and elsewhere in the state*.
DeleteThere is a reason Michael Dresser wrote this article rather than the Sun's reporters who have been following this issue.... Dresser is a big fan of speed cameras whereas Calvert and Broadwater know what is really going on.
12:43 - Or maybe they all got feedback from their constituents and agreed it was the right thing to do.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they can't cure their cranial rectitis on some really important matters!
The president of North Korea won his last democratic election with 100% of the vote.Just putting the issue at hand in perspective.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather pay a kid with a spray can of paint.
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ReplyDeleteThat sir is exactly my point. Thanks for the context.
This bill is just a snow job. It will have few paractical effects at reforming anything (that is as opposed to the house version of the bill which will have ABSOLUTELY NO effect at reforming anything). It most certainly will No Not NOT "end the bounty system".... we specifically have shown two loopholes in the bill which will prevent this. The legislature is just polishing poop.
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