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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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