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Appeals court rules mandatory 30-day warning program for each new red-light camera installation

By Richard Binder

The Orange Superior Court Appellate Division ruled in a July 23 decision that the statutory requirement of a 30-day warning program before a locality can issue tickets to motorists caught on automated cameras going through red lights applies each time a camera is installed at a new intersection.

The panel sided with Danny Byongun Park, a motorist ticketed for running a light at a Santa Ana intersection where no red light camera warning program had been instituted, and rejected the city's argument that the statutory requirement was satisfied when the city installed its first red light cameras six years earlier.

This is the second published decision aimed at Santa Ana?s red light camera program, the first being People v. Khaled, where the Appellate Division ruled that the use of photographs and a police officer's declaration to prove a motorist ran a red light was in violation of the Evidence Code.

Full story at Metropolitan News-Enterprise.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).