Activist group plans to sue over red-light cameras - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 07.18.2007

Activist group plans to sue over red-light cameras
7/17/07

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A Florida activist group claims that red-light cameras used by Orange County to photograph and ticket drivers are unconstitutional.
According to a statement on its Web site, the Florida Civil Rights Association has asked the cities of Apopka and Orlando, as well as Orange County, to stop using the cameras.
In addition, it says if the government doesn’t stop, a class-action suit is not out of the question.
The group cited a court ruling in Minnesota earlier this year, which stated that the cameras violated the due process rights of registered vehicle owners.
The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the cameras – which snap photos of red-light runners, then automatically send tickets to the vehicles’ owners – do not allow the accused the right to face their accusers in court.
The court said the main flaw of such systems is that they assume the registered owner of the vehicle is at fault.

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Baack · **^ Top** #2 07.18.2007

That is one of the problems.
I would like to hear from any one who has gotten one and was able to use I wasnt the driver defence.

truckermario · **^ Top** #3 07.19.2007

"I gave my teenage son my car. Why should I pay the ticket?"
Um. . . Tell him to get a job and pay you back?

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #4 07.19.2007

here's a better one...don't loan your car out to anyone! If you do, and someone uses that car to commit a crime (no matter how minuscule), as the registered owner you are responsible. Maybe I'm just a little to old fashioned/conservative, but what is wrong with accepting responsibility for your own actions. If I willingly loaned my vehicle to someone I am in part responsible for what they do with my vehicle, even if what they do is illegal. Had I not loaned someone my vehicle, the crime might not have happened. It's not all that different than a driver being cited for causing an accident that wasn't his fault just because his log book wasn't current.

Baack · **^ Top** #5 07.19.2007

No
Has any one been able to get away with the I wasnt driving?

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