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Palm Coast’s Long Nightmare With Red-Light Cameras Set to End Friday, 6 Months Early

March 27, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

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The plan, termed a “wind down agreement,” would end the operation of the cameras by March 31 “by mutual agreement.” But Palm Coast would have to pay ATS $16,000 to remove equipment.

Palm Coast Back-Pats Its Grim Luck: Red-Light Camera Suit Dismissed After Plaintiff’s Death

July 23, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Palm Coast’s decision not to settle a lawsuit against it had looked like a mistake once the Supreme Court ruled red-light cameras illegal, until the plaintiff died and was not replaced on the lawsuit, allowing the city to slither out of the it.

Supreme Court Turns Down Red-Light Camera Appeal, Leaving In Place Restrictions On Who May Issue Tickets

April 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal on a red-light camera case with a direct bearing on Palm Coast’s traffic-enforcement program. Five justices concurred in turning down the appeal, without explanation, as is customary when the court turns down a case.

Gutted Bill Restricting Red-Light Cameras Advances as Turn-On-Red Penalty Is Restored  

March 24, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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While the restrictive proposal cleared its latest committee, 7-3, the bill’s only surviving measures would require cities to send our red-light camera notices by certified mail, and to use revenue for public safety programs.

Palm Coast Votes 3-2 to End Red-Light Camera Contract in 2017 and Reduce Flashers To 5

March 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A divided council still disagrees on the red-light cameras’ value. The city is being sued, but says the payout, should there be one, will be manageable.

Bill Banning Red-Light Camera Tickets for Right-Turn on Red Sails Through House Panel

March 11, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The proposal and one like it in the Senate would further complicate Palm Coast’s troubled red-light camera program and its relationship with ATS, the private company running the local scheme. Right-turn on red tickets generate the majority of revenue.

Palm Coast Would End Its Red-Light Camera Program With ATS in Two Years

March 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The city would also reduce all operating cameras from 43 to just five. But it would also see its revenue per camera drop, from the current $700 per month to $350 per month. The city’s revenue from the cameras would drop from $361,000 to $21,000.

In Fear of ATS: The Palm Coast City
Council’s Red-Light Camera Delusions

March 1, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

After coming close to suspending its red-light camera [program, the Palm Coast City Council has retreated, again exposing a willingness to do its camera vendor’s bidding before looking after its residents’ interests.

Palm Coast May Reduce Red-Light Cameras to 5, But Won’t Scrap Program For Fear of ATS

February 24, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Fearful of a lawsuit from ATS, its red-light camera provider. the Palm Coast City Council says it would reduce the cameras from 43 to five, but not eliminate them, even if it means ending all its revenue from the cameras but preserving that of ATS.

Palm Coast Council Weighing Suspending Red-Light Camera Program Entirely

December 9, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council is considering suspending–but not ending–its red-light camera program until courts rule more conclusively on the legality of the system.

Palm Coast Suspends Part of Red-Light Camera Enforcement, But $158 Fines Still Being Issued

November 25, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

While still issuing $158 fines for red-light violations, Palm Coast is for now no longer pursuing drivers who refuse to pay, so those drivers will not get the steeper $264 traffic citation. But those citations may be issued pending the outcome of a court case.

Palm Coast Broods as Ruling Declares Key Step in Red-Light Camera Ticketing Illegal

October 28, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

You may be better off not paying your red-light camera ticket in light of a court decision declaring issuance of those tickets illegal. Palm Coast is studying the ruling as its cameras continue to flash.

In a Stinging Defeat for Palm Coast Government, Supreme Court Rules Pre-2010 Red-Light Cameras Illegal

June 12, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Palm Coast is on the hook for $1.19 million in fines it illegally imposed on drivers between 2007 and 2010, when it ran 10 red-light cameras outside state law. The Florida Supreme Court ruled 5-2 today that such schemes were not permissible. Palm Coast was sued but refused to settle, as did American Traffic Solutions, its contractor. So the city may now have to pay up.

Palm Coast Council Members Declare Never To Have Been Wined and Dined by Red-Light Camera Company

May 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

The member-by-member assertion never to have accepted money or gifts from American Traffic Solutions, the red-light camera company that runs Palm Coast’s system, contrasts with an industry known for its lavish spending on lobbying state and local government officials.

Drive to Scrap Red-Light Cameras by Referendum Ends as Palm Coast Grapples With Consequences of Severing Contract

May 14, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Palm Coast’s contract with ATS to run the city’s red-light cameras runs through September 2019 but is mostly silent on monetary penalties should the city opt out. An earlier version of the contract had granted Palm Coast the authority to end it without cause, but the city inexplicably scrapped that provision in 2012.

Palm Coast Memo on Red-Light Camera Clash With Court Shows Missteps and Assumptions

May 13, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The City of Palm Coast today submitted a 16-page memo to Flagler County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens explaining, without apologies, its absence from a hearing before the judge on April 30, an absence it sought to justify while hinting at blaming the court for being unclear about its intentions.

Palm Coast Council May Consider Red-Light Camera Referendum, But Wants More Talk

May 6, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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There were no dramatic moves Tuesday evening among council members or from the city manager. A dozen members of the public addressed the issue, as did City Manager Jim Landon, as did most of the council members and the mayor. But in the end, the most conclusive action was that the council should talk the matter over more thoroughly at a workshop soon.

Mayor and City Manager Rethink Red-Light Cameras’ Fate as Council Member Proposes Referendum

May 2, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 69 Comments

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With City Manager Landon saying drivers are feeling harassed by red-light cameras, Mayor Netts losing faith in their original purpose and council member Bill McGuire proposing an outright referendum on the matter, the backlash against ATS’s cameras has become so strong that the council will next week discuss the possibility of eliminating them.

Red-Light Cameras Won’t Be Repealed This Year, But Restrictions on Profits May Yet Pass

March 27, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Despised as they may be, red-light cameras have powerful lobbies behind them, and are not going anywhere, for now. (James Morris)

Red-light cameras’ powerful lobby defeated Senate Transportation Chairman Jeff Brandes’s attempt to end the use of the devices, but several proposed restrictions are still moving through the Legislature, such as limiting profits to safety uses and requiring safety studies before cameras can be installed.

Palm Coast’s Red-Light Cameras: How the City Council Locked In a Fraud on Taxpayers Through 2019

March 7, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 62 Comments

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Palm Coast’s red-light cameras siphon off more than $2.5 million out of the local economy every year, in the share that goes to the state and to ATS, the company that runs the scheme, yet the city council quietly approved the deal through 2019, long past the terms of every one of the council members and some of their successors.

Proposed Law Would Halt New Red-Light Cameras and Cut Fines By Half to End Profits

January 9, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Besides no longer allowing municipalities and counties to install red light cameras after July 1, the proposal would cut fins to $83 and allow local governments to impose only a $25 surcharge on tickets to fund the existing systems, which would be allowed to continue. That would lower Palm Coast’s and its private provider’s take by two thirds, likely rendering the system too expensive to run.

Palm Coast Getting Fleeced of Red-Light Camera Dollars, Harming Local Economy

November 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 54 Comments

In September, the 43 red-light cameras in Palm Coast generated $255,740 in fines, what would work out to an annual total of $3 million. The state and ATS, the private company running the system, took more than seven times the revenue share left Palm Coast, which means that the overwhelming majority of the money is leaving the local economy.

Lawmakers File Bill to Prohibit Red-Light Cameras in Florida as Palm Coast Snaps On

September 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

GOP Sen. Jeff Brandes blames red-light cameras “as backdoor tax increases,” but the Palm Coast City Council Tuesday reasserted its commitment to its 43 cameras even as they siphon out more than $3 million a year from the local economy–in taxes to state government, and in revenue to ATS, the Arizona-based company that runs the system.

Supreme Court to Hear Red-Light Camera Challenge in Case That Will Affect Palm Coast

August 22, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The $1.7 million Palm Cast reaped in red-light camera fines between 2008 and 2010 may be at stake if the Florida Supreme Court rules such systems illegal after it hears the much-anticipated case on Oct. 8, with ramifications for numerous cities and counties across the state.

Palm Coast Sours on Traffic Cameras, Calling Fines “Outrageous,” “Overkill” and “Unfriendly”

June 25, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

In a surprising and radical shift, Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon used harsh words to describe the city’s red-light camera program, saying that while the system makes intersections safer, its harsh punishments are out of proportion with the crime, and Palm Coast’s drivers–and the city’s image–are suffering as a result. But he is less clear on how to improve the system, which he does not want dismantled.

Palm Coast Pledges to Stick to $158 Red-Light Camera Fines and Tackle Vanished Payments

June 11, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council will forego adopting steeper fines, of up to $408, for red-light camera tickets, but it has yet to find a solution to a problem particular to the city: the large number of people who pay their tickets but whose payments appear never to register with ATS, the company managing–and profiting from–the system, causing drivers headaches and additional costs.

Palm Coast Mayor Netts Would “Violently Protest” Raising Red-Light Fines From $158

May 28, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

New legislation gives local governments like Palm Coast authority to raise red-light camera ticket fines to $408 if a drivers contests the ticket and loses. Netts’s opposition signals a slight but discernible shift in the mayor’s thinking about red-light cameras.

Red-Light Camera Fines May Go Up to $408 and Be Harder to Fight Under Newest Rules

May 4, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 81 Comments

A new law awaiting Gov. Scott’s signature returns hearings to the control of local governments that have red-light cameras, such as Palm Coast, and allows them to impose an additional fee of $250 on top of $158 tickets, when contested, among other changes.

Proposed Law to End Red-Light Camera Ticketing of Right Turns Advances

March 14, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

If they become law, the restrictions would seriously crimp the use of red-light cameras as revenue generators, as is the case in Palm Coast, where up to 52 such cameras are in place–at least for the companies operating the cameras, since Palm Coast is guaranteed revenue regardless of the number of tickets issued.

Proposed Law Would Curtail Palm Coast’s Ability to Convict Red-Light Camera Violators

March 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

The proposed law, by Sen. Joseph Abruzzo, would shift the burden of proof of a red-light violation to the government imposing the fine, it would eliminate citations for right-turns on red, and it would require a live, government representative at hearings to prove that a violation took place.

Bipartisan Bill to Repeal Red-Light Cameras Advances in Florida Legislature

February 15, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

A bi-partisan proposal would repeal the three-year-old Florida law allowing cities to install spy-and-snap cameras. The repeal, if enacted, would again crimp the revenue of local governments such as Palm Coast, which use the cameras’ ticker revenue to supplement their general fund.

Bill Filed in Florida to Repeal Red-Light Cameras as State Report Points to Fewer Crashes

January 5, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

A South Florida lawmaker filed legislation Friday to repeal the law allowing the use of red light cameras, following a report earlier this week that says intersections where they’re used have seen drops in crashes in most places.

City Thuggery: Florida Supreme Court Should Ban Red-Light Spy-and-Snap Traffic Cameras

December 30, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 40 Comments

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Florida’s new law legalizing red-light cameras ensures that state coffers are on the take. But it does not address the fundamental problems with spy-and-snap cameras. There are innumerable reasons to ban them. There’s only one reason to keep them, and it’s a slimy one: money.

Palm Coast’s Plan to Install Red-Light Spy Cameras on SR100 Faces New Obstacle

December 7, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 41 Comments

Flagler County runs the lights’ infrastructure, and must give its permission to Palm Coast to plug in its spy-camera system. The county, which opposes cameras on SR100, won’t grant permission.

Using Straw Man, Palm Coast Ridicules County’s Opposition to Red-Light Cameras

September 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Rather than address questions raised by County Commission Chairman Barbara Revels, the Palm Coast Council invented a claim that the county wanted to enable law-breaking, unsafe drivers, and dismissed Revels’s request to reconsider installing spy cameras on State Road 100.

Without Evidence But Plenty of Cash, Palm Coast Approves 52 Spy Cameras, Up from 10

August 22, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 95 Comments

The Palm Coast City Council’s agreement to increase the city’s traffic spy cameras to up to 52 is backed by no crash data and no scientific evidence that the 10 existing cameras improve safety, but Palm Coast stands to make up to $437,000 a year from the new scheme.

Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue:
Palm Coast, 14%, Private Company, 86%

June 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

American Traffic Solutions spy-and-snap traffic cameras, at an intersection near you. (© FlaglerLive)

American Traffic Solutions, which runs Palm Coast’s red-light traffic cameras, will make up to $4,250 per camera per month, while Palm Coast makes just $700. Still, the Palm Coast City Council is ready to sign a seven-year deal.

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