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Red Light Ticket BR - Enforceable?
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:36 pm
What’s the latest on this crap? Got a red light ticket back in June and have received “notice to collect unpaid ticket” notifications in the mail on a few occasions. Am I still good to give them a middle finger, or are these now more enforceable?
They have great language in the notice. “It is in your best interest to pay the civil penalties due immediately. Failure to respond will result in additional penalties being assessed.”
They have great language in the notice. “It is in your best interest to pay the civil penalties due immediately. Failure to respond will result in additional penalties being assessed.”
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Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:42 pm to GeauxTime9
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civil
Can't touch you criminally. Can put you in collections but it will fall off in 7 years I believe.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:44 pm to Daniel Simpson Day
They don't do shite. My wife has like 8 of them, many 7-8 years old. Throw it in trash.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:47 pm to Daniel Simpson Day
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Can put you in collections but it will fall off in 7 years I believe.
False
They can THREATEN to put yoy in collections. But they cant really do it
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:55 pm to GeauxTime9
Throw it in the trash. Done it a few times. It’s a scam. Never heard shite from it
Posted on 11/17/23 at 3:56 pm to Cosmo
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They can THREATEN to put yoy in collections. But they cant really do it
Correct
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:11 pm to fallguy_1978
quote:I'm surprised they don't boot. Or use those barnacle things for your windshield.
They don't do shite. My wife has like 8 of them, many 7-8 years old. Throw it in trash.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:16 pm to Abraham H Parnassis
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I'm surprised they don't boot. Or use those barnacle things for your windshield.
I think something like 20% of them get paid in BR. We've had politicians tell us not to pay them
They send you a bunch of junk mail for about 6 months threatening you, but they don't do anything about it.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:21 pm to GeauxTime9
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You can get away with murder in BR/EBR so…...
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:26 pm to Cosmo
Anyone remember this story?
Nola.com
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This Baton Rouge man owes $26K in red-light camera tickets; he embodies debate over program
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Sean Watson holds an unusual record in the history of Baton Rouge’s red-light camera program. He’s amassed $26,633 in unpaid tickets and late fees, putting him at No. 1 on the list of top violators.
His case also illustrates the challenges of the city’s red-light camera program 10 years after it was adopted as fewer and fewer people pay their tickets because they know there are no real consequences for failing to do so. It's a problem other cities face as well and has some of them rethinking whether to continue their programs.
But in 2016, just 42.6 percent of people who received the tickets paid them. That number dropped to 38 percent last year, when Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions issued 72,847 first notices of violation.
So far this year, only 23.7 percent of people have paid red-light tickets. Nearly 32,000 notices have gone out. In the program’s entire history over the past decade, half of the people who received 497,721 first notices have paid them and the city-parish estimates that more than $43 million in red light camera fines are owed to them.
Nola.com
This post was edited on 11/17/23 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:29 pm to GeauxTime9
No. Ignore it. And I'm not joking. There is absolutely zero they can or will do besides send 1000 threats. I cant even count how many of those I've gotten and still have yet to pay. More than one attorney friend told me not to pay them, throw them in the trash can and that's what I've done since day one of them starting that crap how ever many years ago. Anybody that says differently doesn't know what they're talking about. I welcome them to try to convince me I'm wrong about this.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:35 pm to Daniel Simpson Day
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Can put you in collections
If you're ignorant to a subject, then don't speak on it. You're wrong
Posted on 11/17/23 at 4:45 pm to GeauxTime9
Pay it and follow the law. It’s what we called a civilized society, once.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 5:29 pm to GeauxTime9
Got one in Pensacola, one in Lafayette and another in BR, they all threatened civil action. EVERY single one went in the trash. And not anything on my credit report, no liens, no nothing!
Posted on 11/17/23 at 6:07 pm to GeauxTime9
Don't have to pay them, they'll send you a handful of out of state threats and after a few months they'll stop.
The one on Sherwood/Coursey stays flashing people for tickets. I swear people don't count to 10 before taking a right on red there so they send them "tickets".
The one on Sherwood/Coursey stays flashing people for tickets. I swear people don't count to 10 before taking a right on red there so they send them "tickets".
Posted on 11/17/23 at 6:50 pm to Quatrepot
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Pay it and follow the law. It’s what we called a civilized society, once.
These “tickets” are a violation of the sixth amendment so….
Posted on 11/17/23 at 6:53 pm to GeauxTime9
Safe in EBR. Toss the ticket.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 7:06 pm to Daniel Simpson Day
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Can put you in collections but it will fall off in 7 years I believe.
No they can’t. It was part of a settlement with the credit bureaus back in 2015.
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"The credit reporting agencies shall prohibit collection furnishers from reporting debt that did not arise from any contract or agreement to pay (including, but not limited to, certain fines, tickets, and other assessments)," section E(1)(c) states.
The agreement applies to the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Here is the settlement: LINK
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