SB 1234, sponsored by State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff), is likely to be sent to Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs within the next few days. The measure won approval by the State Senate and its consideration is underway in the State House. The bill would ban cities and towns from using photo enforcement to generate revenue from speeding and red-light tickets.
At the same time, the Arizona Campaign for Liberty (AZC4L) discovered that police officers in Scottsdale, Mesa, and Paradise Valley are not reviewing those tickets, which State Senator Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu) stated is required by a law he proposed that got signed into law in 2018.
Rogers (pictured above) said last year she intended to champion the legislation. “The photo radar industry made its home base in Arizona,” she said during an August 2021 interview with TheNewspaper. “And that ends next year. We’re no longer going to allow government to spy on Arizonans for profit and trample due process rights.”
Borrelli’s 2018 bill modified A.R.S. 28-1602 to provide in section (C), “Before a citation is issued, a law enforcement agency must review evidence that is recorded by a photo enforcement system to determine whether a violation of chapter 3, article 3 or 6 of this title or of a city or town ordinance for excessive speed or failure to obey a traffic control device occurred.”
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