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NY Times: “Legal theory” thwarts AZ photo radar

AdminPR — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:34:05 +0000

The NY Times credits a “legal theory” that violators had to be personally served with tickets, a murder, and a group of “conservatives” (gotta love that!) as the reasons that photo radar cameras were taken off Arizona highways. Read the article here: NYTimes. Read author/attorney Susan Kayler’s take on the article at her blog here: SusanKayler.com

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AZ loses $20 million+ issuing photo radar tickets to owner instead of driver.

AdminPR — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:31:28 +0000

The Arizona Daily Star has reported the latest figures in the photo radar highway debacle and says that $20 million worth of photo radar tickets issued to the registered owners of vehicles turned out to be someone else driving. The company who runs the program had its employees swear under oath and in court that the driver was identified before the ticket was issued. In the book, Smile for the Speed Camera–Photo Radar Exposed! author/attorney Susan Kayler says that isn’t true. Owners decided to fight the tickets on that basis. More than 50% of the photo radar tickets issued on AZ state highways were unpaid.

Read the whole article here: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_f9ec1a84-ad52-5e7b-a2de-056ac235afbd.html

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Longer yellow lights work…except for photo radar companies!

AdminPR — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:55:52 +0000

San Carlos, CA council voted out red light cameras after lengthening yellow lights to the legal limit and finding that people were not running red lights. Well, what do you know? Read the article here: http://www.thenewspaper.com/

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Will Chandler ban Photo Radar Cameras?

AdminPR — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:28:05 +0000

Or will they double the number! Read all about it at: Channel 15′s news page.

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Arizona: The Surveillance State

AdminPR — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:35 +0000

Fox News is calling Arizona the surveillance state and have that got that right? Read the article here: Arizona: The Surveillance State

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Photo Radar on Facebook

AdminPR — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:59:00 +0000

PhotoRadarLaw.com is now on Facebook. Click this link to go directly to our page. Check it out and post your photo radar opinions, stories, rants and raves!

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Maricopa County photo radar filings “exceed the legal limit.”

AdminPR — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:54:30 +0000

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors may be ignoring an Arizona law requiring it to create new courts now that photo radar has caused caseloads to “exceed the legal limit.” The Board will hold a public hearing to address its proposal that would add a new court fee of $20 to handle the speed at which photo radar cases have increased court filings. Under the new fee scheme a defendant who unsuccessfully challenges a ticket in court would pay an additional $20 for losing. A defendant who either successfully challenges the ticket or pays the ticket before going to court would walk away cost-free. The fee could affect a defendant’s decision to exercise his or her due process right to a hearing.

The state’s law, A.R.S. Section 22-125, requires the County Board of Supervisors to create more courts or to redraw precinct lines to reduce court caseload. The proposed $20 fee is slated for the current courts with no plans to create the required number of courts to deal with the higher numbers of case filings caused by photo radar. Current caseloads far exceed the number allowed for any individual justice court.

“The photo radar program was sold to the state based on how many tickets would be filed and how much revenue it would generate,” said Susan Kayler, attorney and author of Smile for the Speed Camera–Photo Radar Exposed! “Even though the State and County were aware of the number of tickets to expect there apparently was no plan to comply with state law in order to handle them.”

The statute requiring additional courts also sets out the compensation for Justices of the Peace whose salaries are based on the number of tickets filed each year.

To be heard on the issue of whether photo radar should continue in Arizona, visit CameraFraud.com.

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Photo Radar – Cash cow for Maricopa County?

AdminPR — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:42:17 +0000

Did you know? Maricopa County is reporting that on average there are more than 42,000 photo radar tickets filed in justice courts each month. The county expects the total for the fiscal year to reach 600,000. If all those tickets are paid revenues would exceed $108,000,000.00.

Get the most extensive photo radar information at PhotoRadarLaw.com.

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Photo radar fosters appeals, clogs courts

AdminPR — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:56:15 +0000

Gary Harper of Channel 3 KTVK 3 on Your Side reports on photo radar. A driver who didn’t receive notice of her ticket found her license suspended. When she went to court the judge would not help her and she had to pay the fine. Susan Kayler explains the process and confirms a new appeal case reminding courts that service is required.

See Channel 3′s coverage here.

Read the new appeal case here.

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Monkey man caught on photo radar

AdminPR — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:42:50 +0000

Arizona Department of Public Safety made the decision to use its personnel to conduct surveillance on a suspected speeder. Was it worth it to catch Monkey Man, a driver who donned a disguise as he drove past photo radar cameras? DPS believes they can prove his identity while the public asks whether resources should have been expended to collect a debt.

In a story on FOX-10 News in Phoenix, reporter Sarah Acevedo asked attorney Susan Kayler about the legalities of the action. Kayler told FOX news that public safety is better served by removing the speeder at the time if there is truly a safety issue. Were officers right to follow the driver rather than pull him over when they saw him commit an offense? DPS hasn’t answered that question.

See the story here:

Check PhotoRadarLaw.com blog for more information.

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