Date/location: July 4, 2011: Opa-Locka FL Source: WSVN-TV news story Headline: Help Me Howard: Funeral Ticketed Synopsis: Several vehicles in police-escorted funeral procession were camera ticketed after camera company and police review. Funeral processions re exempt from red light violations under Florida law and police officers were visible in the video stopping traffic for the funeral procession. “it seems clear that no one even watched the tapes before the violations were sent out.” ATS camera system, who denied an appeal to dismiss. Media involvement required to dismiss the tickets.

Date/location: February 10, 2011: Baltimore, MD Source: WBAL-TV video story Headline: Dead Officer's Signature On Red Light Citations Synopsis: About 2,000 camera tickets were shown as being reviewed by a police officer that died months earlier. The city claims it was an error and a live officer reviewed them according to internal records.

1) Date/location: September 23, 2011: Austin, Texas - Source: The Newspaper dot com story - Headline: Red Light Camera Tickets a Man Running a Green Light.... Synopsis: On September 12, Port Lavaca Police Sergeant Kelly Flood signed a ticket accusing Dale Price of running a red light and demanding he pay $75 by October 12, but the light was green. On September 6 at 12:04pm, Price drove his grey 2009 GMC pickup through the intersection of US 35 and Travis Street. He was making a left-hand turn, with turn signal active, at 17 MPH. According to the red light camera, the light had been red for more than a minute. According to the photographs and the video evidence, the light remained green throughout his turn.

It means nothing that the video is suppose to be reviewed by a sworn police officer according to the sheriff. Believe what you will. The Supreme Court has ruled that police can lie to suspects, I meant citizens. The landmark decision regulating false statements made to a suspect is the U.S. Supreme Court case of Frazier v. Cupp, 394 U.S. 731, 1969

Ban "assault intersections" - any intersection that can carry more than 10 cars...

I'm in California and it is amazing to watch Floridians make the same mistake we made ten or twelve years ago - putting in red light cameras. You should know better. The videos the Industry puts on TV make it clear to any observer that nearly of the crashes occur after the signal has been red for 5 or more seconds. It should be easy to figure out that that real late running occurs because the motorist (a visitor or distracted/impaired local) completely misses seeing the signal, because it isn't prominent enough. A camera won't make a signal more prominent. But here's how to do it, cheaply and quickly. A. Paint "signal ahead" on the pavement. A study sponsored by your own (FL) DOT found that doing so could cut running by up to 74%. B. Make the signal lights bigger in diameter or, add another signal head. A study by the Texas Transp. Institute (TTI) found that doing either one could cut crashes by 47%. C. Add backboards to the signal heads. The TTI study found that doing so could cut crashes by 32%. D. For nighttime driving, install brighter bulbs in the street lights and put up lighted name signs for the cross street. These things should be tried at a city's ten worst intersections before there is any consideration of putting in red light cameras.