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Originally Posted by FwdFtl
My position is not to assume it's voluntary and simply ignore the fine, but to find out if the OP is required by law to pay the red light camera fine. It seems to vary from county to county in California, but I know for fact that LA county is not required to pay.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar...meras-20120329
The city Police Commission voted this week to end its contract with the company that operated L.A.'s cameras until they were shut off last summer. And authorities are now planning to reassign a small group of officers who regularly appeared in court to testify in contested photo enforcement cases.
After months of debate, the City Council voted in July to shut down the controversial program. Some officials publicly derided the steep red- light camera fines, which often topped $500, as "voluntary" because county courts were not aggressively penalizing those who simply ignored the citations. |
well it was never "voluntary" if you read the article it's just that LA county wasnt aggressively prosecuting the tickets and kind of making it informally "voluntary"
his option is to fight it and try to make the same arguments that have prevailed in some counties but that would require an apperance which would cost the price of the ticket...conclusion = he's effed