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The city’s unpopular photo enforcement program is here to stay — at least for now — after Mayor Bao Nguyen and Councilman Phat Bui failed again to convince their colleagues to kill it.
National Motorists Associations asks city officials to reconsider stand on the controversial devices.
Garden Grove, one of just two Orange County cities that still uses red light traffic cameras, could end their contract with Redflex Traffic Systems, the company that provides them.
Council members cite excessive fines as the reason to kill the contract. But the cameras will stay up until June of 2015.
RedFlex Traffic Systems, which has contracts with Santa Ana and Garden Grove, has acknowledged a $2-million bribery scheme executed over several years at Chicago City Hall.
An inside look at Orange County’s crime lab and a report on the red light camera controversy in Anaheim are among the latest stories from our broadcast partner.
A Dutch tourist said traffic laws in his country are enforced entirely by cameras, and, he says, the citizenry is fine with it.
Mayor Londres Uso argues that red light cameras are more about money than public safety, but he cannot convince other council members to do away with the devices.