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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Speed Camera Repeal Legislation

A bill repealing the authority to use speed cameras and red light cameras (House Bill 536) is scheduled for a hearing on February 23rd in the the House Environment and Transportation Committee.

The bill SPONSORS who are pushing to end Maryland's corrupt and broken speed camera law, are:
Warren miller, Christopher Adams, Steven Arentz Jerry Clark, Mark Fisher, William Folden, Robin Grammer, Kevin Hornberger, Seth Howard, Susan Krebs, Susan Mccomas, Tony Mcconkey, Matt Morgan, Charles Otto, April Rose, Sid Saab, and Haven Shoemaker. These lawmakers are the ones who want to REPEAL speed cameras.

House Bill 536 would ban both speed cameras and red light cameras. Speed cameras have been particularly criticized since 2012 when it was discovered that Baltimore City has erroneously cited thousands of innocent motorists for speeding. The city's own audit found that as many as 10% of all citations were due to errors, meaning 1 in 10 motorists cited were actually innocent of what they were accused of. Cases included documented examples of "speeding" vehicles that were not even moving, and large trucks falsely cited for traveling twice their actual speed. Local governments and speed camera contractors had previously lied, telling the public that their equipment could not be wrong because it was "tested and calibrated", and that "if you don't speed you won't get a ticket", even though speed camera vendor Xerox later needed to acknowledge that even properly calibrated equipment could be subject to what they called "radar effects". Similar errors have been reported elsewhere in the state, including in College Park, Brentwood, New Carrollton, Forest Heights, Cheverly, and Montgomery County.

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7 comments:

LastMohican said...

about time. if I was a younger man I would have destroyed them myself

Anonymous said...

Carl Anderson, get on this!

Anonymous said...

Give us a phone number to call to be certain that this happens please.

Anonymous said...


Should give a refund for each fine paid. Each one I received was one mile over the limit. I know they give you 12 to start with, but seemed strange each was exactly the same.

Anonymous said...

Sick of the Damn things

We don't live in Russia or China , at least YET !!

The damn gov should Not be allowed to use them against us!!

The govt makes enough Tax money Raping us all every year !!

What's next ?? Tax the damn AIR you breath ??? Prob so !!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Should give a refund for each fine paid. Each one I received was one mile over the limit. I know they give you 12 to start with, but seemed strange each was exactly the same.

February 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM

actually I think it is 11 mph you are allowed to be over the limit. maybe that's why you got a ticket.

Anonymous said...

How many cops were caught on camera speeding ??