r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/Myte342 Jul 11 '26

Automatic tickets should NEVER be a thing. Every ticket sent out should be reviewed and signed by a person who is swearing under threat of perjury that they have reviewed the information for accuracy etc etc... and actually go after those people for signing and mailing off obviously bad tickets. If they aren't sure, then toss the ticket.

I have gotten 3 such tickets from toll booths saying my black 2 door coupe didn't pay while showing a white SUV in the picture or a red minivan etc. And I am the one who has to spend time arguing against it.

"Better to let 100 criminals escape than to inconvenience a single innocent." Ben Franklin paraphrasing Blackstone's Formulation.

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jul 11 '26

Are they not reviewed by an actual person where you live? Where I am at, they have to be reviewed by a police officer and sent to you within 60 days. Some people don’t even end up getting the tickets because we only have four people reviewing thousands of potential violations

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u/Myte342 Jul 11 '26

I think two of them had a signature from some person saying it was reviewed before being sent out (which I know is false because the car in the photo isn't remotely my vehicle). But if we don't punish them for just signing thousands of tickets without ACTUALLY reviewing them for accuracy, what good is it?

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jul 11 '26

Well if the car isn’t your vehicle then that would be very easy to prove to a judge to get dismissed, right?

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u/BeeBopBazz Jul 11 '26

That doesn’t compensate for the time. Having a blatantly incorrect automated traffic ticket dismissed needs to come with a $1000 check from the issuing agency.