Baltimore county speed camera program

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This is simply ludicrous given that, without vendor support, these speed camera systems could not function. Just last week, a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge concurred.

She made this determination based on language from Baltimore County's contract with Xerox that indicated "the contractor will operate 22 active speed cameras and 15 active red light cameras at all times. I suppose that the only way one could view this language as being in harmony with state law would be by assigning a different definition to the word "operate. Like many, I do not have an inherent objection to a the use of cameras for enforcement of traffic laws, provided that we as citizens are assured that the program is actually about public safety, and not just a move to grab money out of our wallets.

The fact that Baltimore County's system is structured so as to financially incentivize the issuance of as many speeding tickets as possible make its easy to argue that these cameras are really meant to make as much money as possible for the vendor and the county government.

Recently, Governor Martin O'Malley noted that "the law says you're not supposed to charge by volume. I don't think we should charge by volume. If any county is, they need to change their program. The citizens of Baltimore County need to have confidence that we are using speed cameras for the right reasons.

If our government is unwilling to restructure its program to offer us greater assurance of the integrity of the system, then we must demand that the system itself be shut down. The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch? Register for a user account. Jeffrey Smith , Neighbor. In particular, the speed camera program operated by the City of Baltimore has been dogged by numerous issues including: the presence of many faulty or incorrectly calibrated cameras that issue erroneous tickets; a lack of reliable human oversight of the program placement of cameras outside of school zones in violation of existing state speed camera laws ; and a lack of clarity in the actual tickets issued to violators, making it virtually impossible for individuals to have verifiable proof that they were indeed speeding.

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