Another California City to Put Traffic Cameras to Public Vote
Tue, 11/13/2012 - 1:39am
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Voters in Riverside, California will decide in June whether red light cameras should be used in their community. The city council narrowly decided last month to renew the use of the controversial devices while also offering the public a chance to be heard. Documents show not only did the public in overwhelming numbers urged the council to drop the use of cameras entirely, but state officials also weighed in heavily against their use at specific intersections.
Hope this spreads
Like a Wild Fire
Then it will evolve
If they will have too many problems with RLC as traffic enforcement, then they will do what Kansas City did. Theirs RLCs are... parking enforcement devices now.
Running a red light in Kansas City, Missouri is now treated as if the owner of the vehicle parked illegally in the middle of an intersection under city code changes unanimously adopted Thursday. That makes it a crime to own a vehicle that is "located" within an intersection after the light turns red. Officials embraced this legal contortions to avoid having to offer full due process rights to motorists, since Missouri is one of the few states in the nation where red light light cameras are in use without the approval of the state legislature. State law requires the assessment of points on a driver convicted of any moving violation, so the new ordinance turns the moving violation of red light running into a parking violation so that the city does not have to prove who was driving.
So now moving car is "parked". But if you got right judge this is not a problem:
The language is borrowed from the city of Creve Coeur which was ruled lawful last year by an appeals court judge with close family ties to the automated ticketing industry
source: http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3947.asp
And probably this anti-RLC votes will be worthless, as parking enforcement probably can't be decided by public vote. But safety is worth any price, isn't it?