{"id":12523,"date":"2023-12-30T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:00:13","slug":"want-to-challenge-your-speed-camera-ticket-thatll-be-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12523","title":{"rendered":"Want To Challenge Your Speed Camera Ticket? That&#8217;ll Be $100."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Motorists caught speeding in Peninsula, Ohio, have options: They can pay with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or PayPal. But if they want to dispute a ticket, the flexibility ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before vehicle owners can appear in municipal court to defend themselves, they must pay a $100 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stowmunicourt.com\/instructions-for-filing-an-appeal-from-a-traffic-camera-citation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filing fee<\/a>.&#8221; No exceptions. No discounts. No deferrals. It&#8217;s the cost of admission\u2014roughly the same as a one-day ticket to Disneyland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many drivers skip the expense and plead guilty, which works well for Peninsula. In just the first five months after launching a handheld photo radar program in April 2023, this village south of Cleveland&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/story\/news\/traffic\/2023\/09\/29\/peninsula-issued-8900-tickets-since-photo-enforcement-program-began\/70988945007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generated<\/a>&nbsp;8,900 citations and $560,000 in revenue. That&#8217;s an average of about 1,800 citations and $110,000 in revenue per month.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jbUTISNq6P\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/05\/want-to-challenge-your-speed-camera-ticket-thatll-be-100\/\">Want To Challenge Your Speed Camera Ticket? 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No discounts. No deferrals. It&#8217;s the cost of admission\u2014roughly the same as a one-day ticket to Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>Many drivers skip the expense and plead guilty, which works well for Peninsula. In just the first five months after launching a handheld photo radar program in April 2023, this village south of Cleveland generated 8,900 citations and $560,000 in revenue. That&#8217;s an average of about 1,800 citations and $110,000 in revenue per month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/05\/want-to-challenge-your-speed-camera-ticket-thatll-be-100\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,1419,1299,1213,285,1283,1993,1992],"class_list":["post-12523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-drivers","tag-driving","tag-judiciary","tag-police","tag-speed","tag-speeding","tag-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}