---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:04:14 -0500 From: "Diamond, Richard" <Richard.Diamondat_private> Subject: Colorado Judge strikes down photo radar system Thought you might be interested in a copy of the 20-page ruling issued this week by a Denver County judge that found the photo radar program had violated both state and local laws. The judge issued a motion to dismiss the tickets of 4 defendants challenging the system, and the city has been forced to turn off the cameras. The ruling tracks perfectly with the two separate California Superior Court rulings that shut down San Diego's red light camera system. The tide may be turning. Click on the link for the entire ruling (3mb, PDF format) http://www.freedom.gov/auto/cases/denver.pdf Richard Diamond Office of the Majority Leader US House of Representatives 202-225-6007 / www.freedom.gov "And it's true in a few intersections we found a few more accidents than prior to the red light photo enforcement. At some intersections we saw no change at all, and at several intersections we actually saw an increase in traffic accidents." -- San Diego Police Chief David Bejarano, Nightline, 7/30/01 "I would have to say that the cameras themselves have not reduced the number of (injury) collisions that have happened at these intersections," said Elizabeth Yard, an analyst with the San Diego Police Department's traffic division. -- San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/2/01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events: Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital in Huesca, Spain from Jan. 17-18 (http://www.congresoperiodismo.com) and the Second International Conference on Web-Management in Diplomacy in Malta from Feb. 1-3. (http://www.diplomacy.edu/Web/conference2/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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