People have challenged the integrity of these systems before such that the owners must show that they function properly. This has been done with cops using radar guns. People would challenge the integrity of the radar guns and the company would decline because they didn't want their intellectual property to become public. I can't find the article but I believe they people who challenged got owned, big time. Nonetheless, it is a valid concern.
Not always, my best friend challenged the calibration specs, affidavit for said specs, time between calibration AND calibrator, the company failed miserably on all fronts, and needless to say he got out of the ticket.
No, private companies cannot. Only the state can charge you with a crime. A private company can only bring you to civil court.
Which is a major problem, speeding and running red lights are misdemeanors, the ticket serves as subpeona and fine, if you go to court and pay, you're done, if you decide to fight it is adjuticated(sp?). These companies attack your credit if you don't pay, even when you didn't sign any contract, which means they get around credit laws as well by treating the city's contract as some kind of binding agreement to all drivers, which should alarm everyone.
Wrong. they must match a face with a drivers license otherwise you don't get a ticket. At least that is true in Arizona.
Not in Lousiana, my city, Lafayette, they simply fine the vehicle, it's assumed by the tag that the owner is driving automatically. Hell, even some of the police and sheriff's officers got tickets during duty runs, one poor deputy got a red light ticket while escorting a funeral.
I hate the ****ing cameras too. We have them about every 3 miles (both ways) on every ****ing freeway. But people do drive the ****ty 55mph or 65mph speed limit now.
Maybe, but I read that rear-end collisions increase at red-light cams, plus, we have a "speed-van", the damn driver pulled out in front of me and almost took me out trying to merge into traffic, that would have been classic front page material, safespeed safety enforcement vehicle causes accident.