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Federal Appeals Court Rules Against ATS, Palm Coast and Cities in Red-Light Camera Case

September 6, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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The decision by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is a reminder that Palm Coast is still not clear of the legal shambles that have surrounded the cameras. That class-action suit can now go forward, with drivers claiming they’d been wrongly fined.

Appeals Court Upholds Red-Light Cameras But Urges Florida Supreme Court to Rule Decisively

July 27, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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A court upheld Aventura’s program, which relies on police, not the private contractor, to make decisions about ticketing motorists. But the court wants the supreme court to decide the issue more finally.

Measure Forbidding Local Governments From Using Red-Light Cameras Advances

February 4, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Sen. Jeff Brandes’ measure would repeal a law known as the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act of 2010 and, as a result, prevent local governments from using the cameras for traffic enforcement.

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.

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 Close To Suspending Red-Light Camera Program as Legal Challenges Mount

February 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

By all appearances from the council’s discussion this morning, the council is ready to end its program as it is now configured, with a final decision to be taken on March 3.

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.

Palm Coast On Red-Light Camera
Ticket Refunds: Don’t Hold Your Breath

June 17, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

While the Palm Coast City Council took no responsibility for instituting a red-light camera program the Supreme Court declared illegal, the city attorney laid out arguments that could keep the city from reimbursing $1.2 million in illegally levied fines before July 2010. But the city is taking a wait-and-see attitude.

This Time Palm Coast Shows Up in Court, But Source of Red-Light Camera Hitch Unresolved

May 30, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Clerk of Court Gail Wadsworth makes her case before County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Hundreds of red-light camera tickets issued by ATS, the private company running Palm Coast’s red-light camera system, end up undelivered, triggering court-issued citations and, often, suspended licenses, even though it’s neither the driver’s nor the city of Palm Coast’s fault–but rather ATS’s inability or unwillingness to better follow through on undelivered mail.

For 2nd Time in 6 Weeks, a Flagler Judge Declares Palm Coast’s Red-Light Camera System “Improper” and Issues Stern Order

April 30, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

Flagler County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens on Wednesday was displeased by Palm Coast not showing up at its own red-light camera hearing, but said the matter will be resolved one way or the other. (© FlaglerLive)

After a hearing on red-light camera citations where Palm Coast was, inappropriately, a no-show, Flagler County Judge Melissa Moore-Stens on Wednesday ordered the city to show why it was circumventing the court’s authority by telling drivers they could settle their camera citations by directly paying the city rather than follow legally required steps–and pay fines–through the court system.

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.

Measure to Cut Local Red-Light Camera Revenue Falters as Cities Cry Foul

March 24, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Not going anywhere yet. (Scott Akerman)

A lawmaker had initially proposed that the state ban new red-light cameras while reducing the fine from $158 to $83, eliminating the money local governments could collect. The outcry from local governments over his initial proposal to eliminate the money demonstrated that the issue is strictly about money, he said.

Judge Craig Indicts Palm Coast’s “Bad Faith” Red-Light Cameras and Exposes City’s Legal Flaws as He Contests Violation

March 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Flagler County Circuit Judge Dennis Craig making his case before the red-light camera hearing officer Thursday morning at Palm Coast's city offices. (c FlaglerLive)

In a half-hour hearing before Palm Coast’s red-light violations officer, Flagler Circuit Judge Dennis Craig on Thursday ridiculed the city’s guilty-until-proven-innocent standard as well as the council’s claim that cameras are intended to improve safety. The city dismissed his citation not on the grounds he raised, but by inventing a case of “prudent” driving that the evidence did not show.

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.

Justices Skeptical of Red-Light Cameras as Supreme Court Hears Case Affecting Palm Coast

November 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

With one insistent exception, Florida Supreme Court justices on Thursday strongly questioned the legality of city ordinances that permitted red-light traffic cameras that spread around Florida before 2010, when the state standardized those systems. Cities like Palm Coast may have to refund fines should the court rule against the local ordinances.

Snap-and-Run: Sheriff Looking for Driver Who Sheared Off Red-Light Camera Pole

September 7, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a vehicle captured on video that struck an ATS red light traffic camera pole on Moody Boulevard (State Road 100) at the intersection of Memorial Medical Parkway in Palm Coast. The pole belongs to American Traffic Solutions, the Arizona-based company that runs the red-light spy-and-snap camera system for Palm Coast.

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.

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.

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