Ohio May Ban Automated Traffic Cameras
No more robo-snitches
Are red light cameras essential safety tools that save lives or part of local money-grabbing scams that ignore due process while giving politicians more spending money?
It depends on whom you ask, and in this case political party affiliation has little to do with it.
H.B. 69, legislation that would prohibit cities and the Ohio State Highway Patrol from using a "traffic law photo-monitoring device to determine a violation of either the state traffic light or speed limit statute," was approved 9-4 by the House Transportation Committee Tuesday.
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