Florida to make it very expensive to appeal a camera ticket
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"If you fight a red-light ticket under Florida's new rules, be prepared to pay more.
Although changes in state law were designed partly to make it easier to challenge a ticket issued because of a red-light camera, the new rules also allow local governments to tack on costs for hearing an appeal: up to $250 per case.
If you win an appeal, you pay nothing. But losing can be expensive — more than doubling the cost of a $158 ticket to $408 in some places.
"It's ridiculous," said Robert Azcano, owner and lead attorney at the Ticket Clinic in Orlando, which has won thousands of red-light appeals in Central Florida. Orange County and eight cities throughout the area use the cameras at dozens of high-traffic intersections to deter red-light runners." ...
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This story is completely illogical--there is no way for anyone here to explain. I say, how can a camera produce a pic of a person doing something, when they didn't do it?
Then stories like this one are posted, basically saying a person didn't do something, a pic was produced, and the person was cited.
Honestly, there is no way for anyone here to come up with an explanation. But the story does not in fact make any sense.
An image can show anything that the image creator wishes. Even if not intentional, a speed camera revenue machine in Maryland was found to incorrectly calculating the speeds. A business owner whose employees were getting improper tickets sent to him finally investigated and did the math. The judge rescinded the company's tickets, but everybody else continued to get tickets. The camera company responded by reducing the numbers after the decimal point (fewer significant figures) in the time stamps to thwart future accurate ticket defenses from the cameras.