The City of Miami Springs collects thousands of dollars from the red light cameras (mostly along NW 36th street) and its recently introduced speed trap cameras at local school zones.
However, a recent article published by Yahoo!News discovers a potential monkey wrench in this revenue stream.
According to the article, a Broward County judge “dismissed a red-light camera ticket and ruled that key parts of the state’s law may violate constitutional due process protections.”
The crux of the matter is this: Can the government find a specific individual in violation of a traffic law if you’re not certain who was driving the vehicle? The cameras can film the car running the red light. The cameras can identify the vehicle that ran the red light. The data can tell us who is the registrant of vehicle that was caught on camera violating a traffic law.
But can the camera identify WHO was driving the vehicle at the time of the recorded violation?
Is the vehicle registrant responsible for traffic violations committed by others?
What do you think? Should the government have to prove WHO was driving the vehicle when the infraction was caught on camera? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section or via social media.
