- Maryland state law
- This is the real source.
- Maryland Transportation Article § 21-809 governs speed monitoring systems.
- Key idea:
A speed monitoring system may not be used by a local jurisdiction unless authorized by that local governing body by local law after notice and public hearing.- So it’s not a constitutional ban; it’s a statutory “not allowed unless locally authorized”
framework.
- Montgomery County
- County/local law can authorize/use them under §21-809.
- I did not find this as a County Charter constitutional-style ban.
- Rockville
- Same: Rockville would need local authorization under Maryland Transportation §21-809.
- Not a Maryland Constitution issue.
I just received my third ticket for supposedly not stopping at the corner of West Guide and Research for the right turn on red. I don’t believe these camers are always correct. I’d have to be idiot by now to not stop! Has anyone else encountered this problem?
They have financial incentive to lie constantly; 99.99% of people will pay the lying shakedown fee because it’s cheaper than their time or trouble. Self-driving monsters will never encounter this, pushing people out of their cars, out of freedom. The constant weird “fires” that have somehow burned down to white ash many tens of thousands of steel cars at — what a dozen so far this year? — junkyards and ‘classic auto’ yards feels like an engineered coincidence. All to remove personal freedom, travel. Pattern recognition is a survival skill. See the film “In Time” that predictively programs one awful potential future. Why did ‘they’ spend millions of dollars to celebritize such an agenda? Flock cameras another aspect of the tightening insanity. Those roadside unmanned ‘speed cameras’ that rake in hundreds of millions of dollars by fleecing the speeding populace are another facet.