Beating the Photo Ticket Runaround

This article first appeared in the Fall 2021 edition of the National Motorists Association’s Driving Freedoms magazine. As a member of the NMA, you receive an automatic subscription four times per year. Become a member today and help the NMA advocate against automated traffic enforcement and other issues affecting motorists.  Editor’s Note: Many accounts have […]

Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right-Angle Crashes

By Jim Baxter, Founder of the National Motorists Association Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in 2008 but is still quite relevant today. Since then, Case Western University researchers in 2017 found that RLCs do not make intersections safer and, when finally turned off due to community pressure, the intersection is actually safer than before. […]

NMA Principle Number 2: Traffic Laws Fairly Written and Reasonably Enforced

The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]

TheNewspaper.com Roundup: March 5, 2018

In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Forgetful cops can testify using notes in TN– –Short Yellow Lights win in IL– –Redflex continues to lose money– Friday, March 2, 2018 Tennessee: Forgetful Cop Can Testify Based On Notes, Video Cops in Tennessee no longer need to have any independent recollection of the events about which they testify. […]

Transparency Worth Fighting For: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #473

To quote from the NMA Guide to the Freedom of Information Act and State/Municipal Public Records Requests (yes, we do need to work on that title): Constructive reform of government requires a thorough understanding of an issue.  Used effectively, the records request helps provide transparency of policy and related activity that are essential ingredients to […]

TheNewspaper.com Roundup: December 25, 2017

In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –TX Appeals Court takes on RLCS– –WA State Toll Experiment a Failure– –Editorial: $44 Tolls just the beginning– Friday, December 22, 2017 Oregon: Federal Judge Sides With Anti-Camera Engineer Oregon officials admittedly violated the free speech rights of a man who criticized the use of red-light cameras. A federal magistrate […]