Sixteen states ban the use of red light cameras and speed cameras by statute or state court rulings (view list), but none of these prohibitions are anywhere near as sweeping as a pair of bills signed into law last week by South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard (R). Not only are South Dakotans protected from red light camera tickets within state borders, as of July 1 they will be immune to automated citations issued in most other states.
Lawmakers in Pierre overwhelmingly favored a straightforward ban on the use of red light cameras. Earlier this month, the state Senate voted 26 to 9 on the ban that had cleared the state House in February by a 69 to 1 margin.
"No state, county, municipal, or township authority may contract with any private corporation to provide for the use of any photo monitoring device to detect any red light violation," the new law, House Bill 1100, states.
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It is time Maryland put speed cameras on the Bay Bridge.
ReplyDelete12:13 - I disagree...we should outlaw them all - like they did in SD.
ReplyDeleteIf more people obeyed the law (conservative philosophy) they wouldn't be necessary. Here, cameras are used as a revenue stream to control the subjects and fill the coffers for handouts (liberal philosophy).
Time to remove them in da 'bury!
ReplyDelete1;21 right on!
ReplyDeleteNot here in the Gulag Archipelago-- they enable revenue without rendering any services in return--
ReplyDeleteif 80-85% of people are 'speeding', raise the damn limit. Oh, that's right, you won't collect revenue that way.
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