L.A. County Red Light Cameras Drain Taxpayers, Not Drivers

L.A. County Red Light Cameras Drain Taxpayers, Not Drivers - Big Government
And it turns out citations they generate are not properly served, under California State Law. And can thus be ignored?

However, the real lunacy of this program is that Los Angeles Superior Court judges have ruled that the citations are unenforceable. The successful legal argument was that because a human being did not actually hand the citation to the offender that the citation was not properly served.

If the citation is not legally served, then there is no crime to enforce. So people in Los Angeles County can ignore the citations with no repercussions. That’s right — drivers actually do get off scot-free. Yeah, you get sent to a collections agency, but even then there is no civil suit possible because no crime has been committed because no service was performed. Nor can the agency report your lack of payment to a credit agency or the DMV. Meanwhile, dozens of other court cases have made the camera enforcement a farce statewide.

And so the contract for red-light cameras has been renewed...