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Speed Cameras Are Little More Than Big Brother Surveillance

Feb

2022

Speed Cameras Are Little More Than Big Brother Surveillance

We embrace safety, but speed cameras exemplify mass surveillance without a warrant. Photo speed traps offer very powerful financial incentives to issue as many citations as possible.

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Ohio Supreme Court to Consider Red-Light Camera Case

Feb

2022

Red Light Cameras

Ohio Supreme Court to Consider Red-Light Camera Case

The city of Toledo will watch closely on Wednesday as the Ohio Supreme Court takes up the question of whether state lawmakers can financially punish cities that insist on operating automated speed and red-light cameras.

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Local Lawmaker Proposes Plan to Shut Down Many Speed Cameras: I-Team

Feb

2022

Speed Cameras

Local Lawmaker Proposes Plan to Shut Down Many Speed Cameras: I-Team

A local lawmaker just introduced a sweeping plan that would shut down speed cameras, so the I-Team investigated.

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Speed-Camera Controversy Continues Long After Village's Enforcement Ends

Jan

2022

Speed Cameras

Speed-Camera Controversy Continues Long After Village's Enforcement Ends

The lead plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case.

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Case Highlights Speed Cameras' Usage Problems

Jan

2022

Speed Cameras

Case Highlights Speed Cameras' Usage Problems

A local judge has decided not to order the city of Girard to pay any damages in a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 7,000 people who were cited and billed for speeding -- even though they weren't.

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Brakes Pumped on Class-Action Lawsuit Ruling

Jan

2022

Speed Cameras

Brakes Pumped on Class-Action Lawsuit Ruling

The lawyer for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over ticketing by speed cameras on Interstate 80 in Girard is appealing a Trumbull County judge's ruling that favored the city.

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Ohio Supreme Court Repels Law School Graduate Attack on Speed Cameras

Dec

2021

Speed Cameras

Ohio Supreme Court Repels Law School Graduate Attack on Speed Cameras

Ohio Supreme Court justices decline to stop the village of Brice from issuing photo radar tickets that cannot be enforced.

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New Miami Voters Hit Brakes on Request for Additional Police Levy

Nov

2021

Police

New Miami Voters Hit Brakes on Request for Additional Police Levy

For several years when speed cameras were rolling in New Miami, the village was flush with cash, and since the cameras stopped rolling, so did big revenues. But voters on Tuesday denied a new levy to shore up finances.

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Howland Discontinued Speed Cameras July 1 After Change in State Law

Jul

2019

Speed Cameras

Howland Discontinued Speed Cameras July 1 After Change in State Law

The Howland Police Department ended its traffic-camera program July 1 in response to the new Ohio law that reduced state funding to government bodies using them.

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