Also, stopping at stop signs is free, so that's an option as well.
Speed cameras in NE IA
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I was thinking that you couldn't renew your drivers license with one of these outstanding but maybe that was a regular traffic ticket
If you're going to fight it because you don't want the ticket on your record, make sure to request the calibration records of the device that cited you the ticket. Better yet, get a traffic attorney.
If it's just about the money, then pay it. To appear at a dispute it would be, what? 10 hours of your time and 400 miles of driving on your vehicle (with a chance of getting another speeding ticket)
If it's about the principle, F the man. These speed cameras and red light cameras enforcing traffic laws are a racket. The city of Chicago had plenty of sketchy behavior around their camera implementation. They'll always say it's about public safety until they get called out on doing things to increase revenue. Secretly lowering yellow light timings below their stated level of 3 seconds? No, that's not to ticket more people running reds. It was to prevent the most dangerous of crashes, obviously. Then why would they not fully disclose the shortening of the yellow time?
I thought that the whole 6th Amendment thing would have put the kibosh on camera enforcement long ago.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him"
The cameras are only the tool, of course. So it's the company that installed, set up, calibrates, and maintains the tool that would be the witness I presume.
The calibration defense doesn't really work when they grant you 10 mph leeway.
Generally for these types of things I look to the famous attorney Fletcher Reede:
Why?
A governmental entity in the state of Iowa cannot report these types of tickets to a credit agency per the Iowa AG.
In fact, Cedar Rapids got caught trying to do their own thing with this and got called out on it:
4,800 traffic camera tickets with credit warning issued by ‘mistake’
CEDAR RAPIDS – Tactics used to collect on Cedar Rapids traffic camera tickets are again coming into question. A change …www.thegazette.com
Until you try to sell or refinance your house and it's listed as an $70 judgement against the deed when the attorney does the abstracting. Seen it with my own eyes multiple times here in Des Moines.
So where is/are the camera(s) in West Union? I have to go there periodically because my mother is in the nursing care center. No use adding more cost to the trip.
At 3 times the cost of the original ticket, and at that price they probably aren't "good".
The more I think of this, the more I think its just more BS to get people to pay the fines.
A creditor would have to put the judgement on the house for the payment owed. This act is currently not allowed by state level entity's in the state of Iowa per the AG.
Even the threat of a court challenge would likely make that go away quickly.
How often did you say this happens? I'm searching Google for past instances where this has happened to see what legal precent is out there. I'm not finding anything.
Also, the info I am finding is that in almost ALL cases creditors have to win a lawsuit in order to legally put a judgement against your property.
This one was on 150 on the south side of town, near Moss Roofing. Not that I checked Google Earth street view to see how close it was to changing to a 45 mph zone or anything.
I think there is actually 1 more, but I'm not sure on location.
As we know, if we gave the south two tiers of counties to Missouri, we would raise the IQs of both states. So, I totally agree.
If there was truly nobody around for miles he never would have seen you fail to stop.
Tell him to come and sit by the stop sign at the corner of our lot. There are people that seem to try to see how fast they can blow through that intersection without stopping. Sometimes it is quite a trick since it is a T intersection so they have to turn right or left.
I'm not an attorney so I don't have a clue on the legality of what has to happen - just stating my experience in seeing these small traffic tickets listed as judgements on title searches.
There is an intersection on the Iowa/Minnesota border that is a T on the state line and a south blacktop T'ing in. There is a top sign on the east west road and the right turn north or left turn south has the right of way instead of the straight shot.
$70 or hiring a good lawyer ... Seems like $70 is a better investment with a 100% guarantee success rate
The other one is up by the high school on the north side of town.
Gotcha, no problems.
I've done quite a bit of research into this topic in the past and about the only "consequence" that I can find, is that they can withhold Iowa state tax refunds. However, even that was being challenge in court at one point. Not sure what ultimately happened there though.
Drivers challenge Iowa's seizure of tax refunds for tickets
Drivers who have unpaid traffic camera tickets are challenging the state of Iowa's ability to seize part of their tax refunds to collect the money.
www.desmoinesregister.com
So, basically if you have to pay taxes to Iowa, they are screwed in any avenue.
That's what it was, I knew I was checked to see if I had any outstanding tickets last year but couldn't remember why. It was when we bought our new house (I didn't have any)
