Arizona, Traffic Surveillance Capital of America, To End Speed Cameras; Will Missouri Follow?
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Last week Arizona announced that it would end its controversial speed-camera program. The "Grand Canyon State" first approved the use of the cameras in 2008, and today operates 76 Redflex cameras that photograph speeders and then send them a ticket in the mail.
Similar speed cameras first arrived to Missouri earlier this year with the north county municipality of St. Ann using the devices to nab speeders near a middle school. Later this year, another north county 'burb, Charlack, began using the devices on Interstate 170.
In Missouri the speed cameras are operated by a small Sunset Hills-based firm called B&W Sensors.
This past February state representative Michael Corcoran (D - St. Ann) filed a bill to limit the use of speed cameras in Missouri. That bill, HB1947, has moved to committee but doesn't look like it's heading to a floor vote any time soon.
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