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Texas Speed Limit May be Lowered to Boost Toll Revenue

Toll road contract in Texas allows state to lower speed limits on nearby interstate freeway to avoid paying penalties to a private company.

The provision ensures no improvements can be made to nearby roads unless the agency issues payment to the Spanish-US private consortium with taxpayer funds. TxDOT can reduce the amount of compensation owed, however, if it agrees to increase toll revenue by imposing a “decrease in the maximum daytime posted speed limit for passenger vehicles on all or a substantial portion of I-35 where it runs generally parallel to the Facility.” This means that TxDOT can recover money generated by additional tolls as motorists abandon I-35 because of the lowered limit and increased congestion.
 

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DeKalb Police May Have Ticket Quotas

DECATUR, Ga. — CBS 46 News has learned that the DeKalb County Police Department may have instituted a quota system.

Sources tell CBS 46 that officers are being ordered to make a certain number of arrests, and write a certain number of tickets each month.

Regardless, the line to get into DeKalb’s traffic court is growing and may continue to grow if Police Chief Terrell Bolton has anything to do with it.

CBS 46 News has learned that under the Guided Achievement Plan, Bolton is ordering his officers to write more tickets and arrest more people because they are well behind the number of arrests and tickets compared to 2006.

More here:  http://www.cbs46.com/news/14317413/detail.html

New Jersey Judges Caught Fixing Tickets
Nearly half of the Jersey City, New Jersey municipal court judges face ticket fixing charges.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced yesterday the filing of corruption charges against nearly half of the Jersey City’s municipal court judges. Four of ten magistrates had been caught in a ticket fixing scandal that surfaced last month.

Former Chief Judge Wanda Molina, 48, is accused of dismissing five parking tickets, worth more than $200, for a female companion. Judge Pauline Sica, 45, allegedly dismissed one parking ticket and reduced costs on a second ticket that Judge Victor Sison, 64, received. Judge Sica also knocked off the license points for a traffic ticket that one of Judge Sison’s family members received. Judge Irwin Rosen, 52, was charged with dismissing his own $42 parking ticket.

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West Virginia Looks to Boost Revenue with Court Costs

Traffic tickets will become more expensive in West Virginia as motorists are double and triple charged for court appearances.

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals yesterday moved to boost revenue from traffic tickets by warning lower courts that they must collect the maximum possible amount in court costs from each defendant. The admonition came during a meeting of the Magistrate Education Committee which continues today. As a result of the clarification, any motorist charged with, for example, both speeding and failure to signal must pay the $160.50 assessment for court costs twice — for a total of $321 — even though the motorist appeared only once in court.

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Motorists Forced To Let Officers

Draw Blood Samples At DUI Stops

There have been an increasing number of police departments allowing their officers to draw blood samples from motorists under suspicion of a DUI/DWI. This takes place on the roadside as opposed to a hospital where there are trained medical professionals. It seems like a recipe for disaster to allow officers to do blood draws when they do not have adequate medical training.

According to Scripps News, a man developed a persistent infection at the site of a blood draw administered by a Pima County sheriff’s deputy. He has filed what is believed to be the first claim in Arizona against the practice, which could put local taxpayers on the hook for any damages.

Arizona law requires that drunken driving suspects submit to a test or lose their license for a year and it’s the officer’s choice, not the driver’s, whether to use a breath or a blood test.

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Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland plan legislation authorizing speed cameras in highway work zones that would generate $500 and $2000 tickets.

Officials in both Maryland and Virginia are planning to introduce legislation allowing cameras in so-called highway work zones that would issue automated tickets worth $500 in Virginia and $2000 in Maryland. Lawmakers are following the lead of Illinois which last year introduced $1000 freeway speed camera tickets that have generated significant revenue. Oregon will begin its own work zone photo ticketing program next year, and states like Colorado are exploring an expansion of existing speed camera programs to include freeway work zones.

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San Jose sued over dubious speeding tickets

LAW FIRM WANTS $1 MILLION FOR DRIVERS FINED UNDER PHOTO-RADAR PROGRAM

By John Woolfolk

Mercury News

A San Jose law firm filed a $1 million claim against the city Thursday over a photo-radar traffic program the city scuttled in March amid concerns it was illegal.

Attorney James McManis is seeking refunds for motorists who paid speeding fines under the city’s Neighborhood Automated Speed Compliance Program, or NASCOP. McManis said the claim lays the groundwork for a possible class-action lawsuit on behalf of thousands of drivers who paid fines that ranged from $99 to $350.

“We’ve got this illegal program that the city of San Jose has perpetrated for a number of years, and we’ve got to get that money back for the motoring public,” McManis said.

NASCOP, which San Jose launched in 1996, featured a city traffic engineer in an unmarked van equipped with a speed-sensing radar gun and digital cameras to snap cars speeding by. Speeding tickets were then mailed to the registered owners of those cars.

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