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    Off topic, but a few years ago a town in Tennessee had their speed camera contractor screw up in this way. Unfortunately for them, they tagged an elderly couple whose son was a very good attorney. He sued the town for enough winnable civil liability to bankrupt them and force them to disincorporate.

    Speed cameras are all but completely illegal in TN now.

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      When I lived in Clarksville, they had intersection cameras to ticket anyone that ran a red light. Couple problems with it.

      1. Drivers started slamming on their brakes; causing more accidents
      2. The city outsourced the cameras, so they received only pennies on the dollar for every ticket.

      I think they eventually removed them, but I can’t recall. I visited last September to take a class for work, and I didn’t see any cameras, so they might be gone.

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        Dresden’s House rep got a bill passed several years ago to outlaw them. The Australian vendor’s lobbyists managed to get a carve out for school zones and blind curves, but I haven’t even seen any of those in years.

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          Wait…so the company that supplied the cameras wasn’t even from the U.S.?

          Wow…this just gets more insane the more I learn about it. As conservative as Tennessee can be, they first outsourced their law enforcement for a return of pennies on the dollar to the city, AND the taxpayers ended up subsidizing a foreign company.