Friday, January 22, 2010

KANSAS CITY RED LIGHT CAMERA PROTEST THIS SATURDAY!!!

Interesting . . . The Liberty Restoration Project takes on Kansas City's Red Light Cameras this weekend.

This group has a pretty solid list of complaints with local Red-Light Camera efforts.

Protest Details:

Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010

Time: 11:30am – 3:00pm

Location: 39th and Southwest Trafficway, Kansas City, MO

Protesters are encouraged to meet first at Westport Coffee House to distribute supplies among the group, the group will then move to 39th and Southwest Trafficway.

Double Bonus Points, the group will have fliers available to educate drivers on how to fight their tickets.

via Tony’s Kansas City: KANSAS CITY RED LIGHT CAMERA PROTEST THIS SATURDAY!!!.

My heart breaks.

This is not freedom. This is tyranny.

Texas: Judge Ignores November Vote On Anti-Camera Initiative

Activist judge sides with traffic camera company over the voters of College Station, Texas in referendum dispute.

Judge Suzanne StovallA Brazos County, Texas District Court visiting judge on Thursday overturned the results of the anti-red light camera ballot measure in the city of College Station. Judge Suzanne Stovall ruled in favor of American Traffic Solutions (ATS) which had used a front group to challenge the results of the November 3 election in which a majority of voters chose the option listed on the ballot as, “For Ordinance bans cameras.” Despite the clear wording, Stovall interpreted the measure as something different.

“The court is of the opinion that the effect of the proposed ordinance would operate to repeal a previously enacted and enforced city ordinance, and thus should have been classified as a referendum petition,” Stovall wrote. “Inasmuch as Section 84 of the College Station City Charter imposed an obligation upon the citizens to submit a referendum petition within twenty days of enactment of City Ordinance 3017, the citizens of the city of College Station submitted the petition outside of the statutorily required time frame.”

City officials were technically defendants in the suit, but they had no interest in winning. The city attorney helped arrange this outcome by producing an “agreed statement of facts” with the ATS-funded law firm that presented the situation in such a way that Stovall saw little argument against overruling a public vote.

via Texas: Judge Ignores November Vote On Anti-Camera Initiative.