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Fountain Hills Red Light Cameras - All Hands on Deck

Fountain Hills Mayor Tricky (Ginny) Dickey thinks she can pull the wool over the eyes of every resident in Fountain Hills and install red light cameras.

She obviously has another thing coming.

The plan will be laid out to put a stop to Tricky Dickey’s camera scheme on a Zoom call. Info is below:

Topic: Fountain Hills Red Light Scam
Time: Aug 23, 2020 07:00 PM Arizona

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Above: Ginny Tricky Dickey only sees cash money when she peers through those red light camera lenses.

Arizona-based Redflex Booted from Texas After Red Light Camera Ban Signed into Law

Press Release:

Austin, Texas – Over the weekend, Texas Governor Greg Abbott effectively ended the Texas operations of Redflex Traffic Systems, whose U.S. headquarters are in Arizona. In the aftermath of Abbott signing the bill, which was architected by Campaign for Liberty activists, many cities like Austin, Ft. Worth, Plano, Frisco, Garland and Sugarland have publicly announced that their red-light cameras are shut off and tickets will no longer be issued.

Campaign for Liberty of Texas Director Byron Schirmbeck spent all day Monday and Tuesday on the phone getting confirmation from the cities and the vendors about whose cameras are shut off and who has yet to comply with the law. “From my phone calls and speaking to an agent of Redflex, I can tell you that all of their cameras in Texas are now shut off,” said Schirmbeck. “Redflex no longer has any business here,” he continued.  Schirmbeck worked tirelessly during the current legislative session with bill sponsor Rep. Jonathan Stickland (Bedford, TX) to maneuver House Bill 1631 through both chambers and land it on the governor’s desk.

Last week, in a shareholder announcement, Redflex lamented that the loss of their Texas business would cost the company 13% of their of revenue and that “the enactment of Bill 1631 will have a material impact on the company’s financial performance.” Texas becomes the 17th state in the U.S. to place a ban on forms of photo ticketing, including red light cameras and photo radar. Also prohibited by the new law in Texas will be photo radar cameras attached to school busses. That news comes in the wake of the former CEO of a school bus camera operator in Dallas being sentenced to 7 years in prison and a $125 Million fine for his central role in a bribery scandal involving his company’s camera scheme.

Arizona Campaign for Liberty Director Shawn Dow says that the ban in Texas is a precursor for what he expects to see in Arizona. “What we are witnessing in Texas is a great victory for liberty and the Constitution,” said Dow. “Texas’s legislature has done what we have been asking of our representatives in Arizona for multiple sessions. I think the message has just been delivered to them that the people are fed up with these cities and towns snatching their hard-earned dollars and it’s time to put a stop to it here too,” Dow continued.

Campaign for Liberty maintains that photo radar violates the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and is a corrupting influence on law enforcement. For studies on the increase in accidents after the install of ticketing cameras, please visit http://www.campaignforliberty.org/state-blogs/Arizona/red-light-camera-studies-show-increase-in-accidents

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About Campaign for Liberty:

Campaign for Liberty was founded in 2008, by 12-term representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul. Our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of education, issue advocacy, and grassroots mobilization.

Red Light Cameras Killed for 2nd Time in Glendale Arizona

Anti-SCAMera activists got wind of an attempt by Glendale City Council member Lauren Tolmachoff to revive the city’s red light camera system which has been defunct for years.

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Each member of city council, Mayor Weiers and their assistants were all sent an extensive packet of information ahead of last night’s council meeting where a revival of the previous red light camera system was being considered. This packet describes all the scandals, increased accidents, lawsuits and court cases that have been suffered by the major photo ticketing vendors in the U.S. The members then proceeded to vote it down.

12 News in Phoenix reported on the meeting and the fact that Glendale rejected the camera revival proposal after more information about the fatal flaws in the system came to light. 

Link - 12ne.ws/2N1m6jz

The 12 News report also reminded Arizonans that photo tickets are essentially just trash that they can throw out when sent in the mail but aren’t served in person:

“If you happen to get a red light ticket in the mail, you can actually ignore it,” said legal expert Monica Lindstrom.

Lindstrom says you can essentially throw your red light ticket in the trash if it just shows up in your mailbox. Cities have to go one step further in order to make the ticket stick.

“If the city is diligent that is issuing the ticket, they’ll actually hire someone to come to your house and to knock on your door and hand it to you or someone else in your home. Once that happens, you’re considered personally served and you’re required to go to court,” Lindstrom explained.

Why Did Scottsdale Quietly Shut Down Photo Radar Cameras on Shea?

Scottsdale has shut down fixed speed cameras at 120th Street and Shea without any notice to the public. Eyewitness accounts from area motorists claim that the cameras are no longer flashing.

A quick check of Scottsdale’s city government website shows that they no longer list these cameras as part of their fixed photo radar locations

But why would they shut down these revenue generating machines without giving notice and without a plan to replace them?

In 2010, the cameras at Indian School and Hayden were “relocated” to another intersection to keep drivers guessing, at least according to Scottsdale Public Information Officer Mark Clark. However, at the time, other city officials disagreed about that statement from Clark.

Our source inside Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane’s office told us that the reason that those cameras were removed is because an acquaintance of his had veered off the road and smashed his vehicle into one of the camera poles with so much force that the entire unit was left inoperable. The accident, caused by the camera, had taken it completely out of commission and left it on the ground. He told us that moving all of the cameras at that intersection was just a way to avoid calling the safety of the Scottsdale PD’s red light camera scheme into question.

Given that embarrassing situation from 2010, will The City of Scottsdale make a statement about why they are shutting down more cameras in 2017?

And more importantly will they tell the truth this time?

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Above: A black bag covers the warning sign which tells motorists that speed is photo enforced in the immediate area.

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Above: Two of the fixed speed cameras that are no longer issuing citations.

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Above: Two of the fixed speed cameras near 120th Street and Shea that are no longer issuing citations

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Above: A black bag covers a warning sign about photo enforcement on Westbound Shea near 120th Street

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Above: A fixed photo radar camera in a median facing Eastbound Shea near 120th Street

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Above: A black bag covers a photo enforcement warning sign on Eastbound Shea near 120th street