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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m confused by this “MCPS/police don’t get any money” sentiment.  Doesn’t money collected from tickets go to the county and thus become part of county income, which is used to fund the budget, which includes, among money other things, money for the police and schools?[/quote]

No.

Ask your County Councilmember why he/she thinks that is OK.  The Council just held a hearing on this on Monday and made it clear they don't care where the money goes.  [/quote]

The Council work sessions was focused on safety, in an effort to alert residents of the program and the law. Many are ignorant. It wasn’t about money. That worksession will be on September.

[b]The company outfitted all the buses up front without payment. In exchange for all camera ticket revenue until the equipment is paid for. Then the revenue gets split. The split has not been determined yet.[/b]

People are paying the fines. I have no idea where that rumor is coming from. If you pay the citation directly, right now, the company gets it.  If you contest the ticket in court, the State gets it.  After the contract has been modified to split revenues, county revenue will be used for pedestrian safety initiatives, just like speed and red light camera revenues are.

It’s not clogging up the courts. There is a separate administrative docket for all automated traffic enforcement citations.

The reviewers give the drivers the benefit of the doubt, and in about one quarter of the cases, no citation is issued. Both the vendor and several levels of police review the video.

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Good try but you are blowing smoke.

The Council meeting was to cover up, not alert.  The Council knows the problems with this scheme.  There is no September meeting scheduled.  
Fines are not being paid. It's not a rumor, it's a fact. The money is not there. If you know so much, why don't you explain where all the money is, since it is missing.
Let's see your documentation.

The company MCPS contracted with doesn't even exist anymore and they haven't paid their taxes.
The Police only have a couple of people to handle these citations, they don't have several layers.  You think the Police are spending $2 million to make money for a company that is defunct?

Courts didn't have a docket for these citations before and so yes, the addition of this citation scheme is clogging up District Court.

Now go find the fine money, $14 million is missing. 
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1st PP: This was a plausible answer. Thank you.

2nd PP, lay off the sativa.[/quote]

Plausible but not true.  MCPS has to report the money collected and they have only collected 37% of the fines.  63% of the cars sent citations aren't paying up.

Lay off the cover up.  The Council is already working hard on that. [/quote]

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