QuickZ06
05-02-2012, 10:02 PM
Citizens you will comply. So now if you don't pay those red light tickets they can now shut off your utilities. Mayor Ken Miyagishima said the city isn't breaking any law.....never mind about those unconstitutional red light cameras :rolleyes:
Las Cruces leaders get heat for red light camera ticket policy
May 1, 2012
LAS CRUCES, N.M. —
It was a topic of discussion all the way up in Santa Fe during a meeting for the New Mexico Public Regulations Commission -- Las Crucens losing their utilities over unpaid traffic tickets Tuesday.
Some state leaders argued the city is just trying to find new ways to money and don't feel it's fair to the public.
"You turn off the utilities, some people can't afford to pay the bills," Las Cruces resident Richard Murillo said. "Utilities, water gas are on different category from the street lights."
Richard Murillo said he can't believe the city will turn off utilities for people with unpaid traffic tickets from the red light cameras in the city.
KFOX14 ran into Murillo as he was leaving City Hall on Tuesday after paying a traffic ticket from a red light camera.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima said the city isn't breaking any law.
"One of the things that we could've done, the city, a little better was to let the public know that we're only looking at probably the top 20 offenders," Miyagishima said.
Miyagishima said that only five letters were sent out to people with multiple red light camera traffic tickets at risk of losing their utilities and four have already responded.
"Well, that one person actually who hasn't responded already has the utilities turned off because apparently they left," Miyagishima said. "They left town."
Miyagishima said the letters go out to people with 20 or more tickets.
Each red light camera ticket will cost $100, then add on another $48 to have the utilities turned back on if they've been shut off by the city.
Miyagishima said the city doesn't expect people to pay the balance all at once, it just wants to be in contact with them and know the money is on the way.
The city is owed nearly $2 million in unpaid traffic tickets.
No one so far has actually had their utilities turned off because of the tickets.
Article here.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/news/las-cruces-leaders-get-heat-red-light-camera-ticke/nNN7b/
Las Cruces leaders get heat for red light camera ticket policy
May 1, 2012
LAS CRUCES, N.M. —
It was a topic of discussion all the way up in Santa Fe during a meeting for the New Mexico Public Regulations Commission -- Las Crucens losing their utilities over unpaid traffic tickets Tuesday.
Some state leaders argued the city is just trying to find new ways to money and don't feel it's fair to the public.
"You turn off the utilities, some people can't afford to pay the bills," Las Cruces resident Richard Murillo said. "Utilities, water gas are on different category from the street lights."
Richard Murillo said he can't believe the city will turn off utilities for people with unpaid traffic tickets from the red light cameras in the city.
KFOX14 ran into Murillo as he was leaving City Hall on Tuesday after paying a traffic ticket from a red light camera.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima said the city isn't breaking any law.
"One of the things that we could've done, the city, a little better was to let the public know that we're only looking at probably the top 20 offenders," Miyagishima said.
Miyagishima said that only five letters were sent out to people with multiple red light camera traffic tickets at risk of losing their utilities and four have already responded.
"Well, that one person actually who hasn't responded already has the utilities turned off because apparently they left," Miyagishima said. "They left town."
Miyagishima said the letters go out to people with 20 or more tickets.
Each red light camera ticket will cost $100, then add on another $48 to have the utilities turned back on if they've been shut off by the city.
Miyagishima said the city doesn't expect people to pay the balance all at once, it just wants to be in contact with them and know the money is on the way.
The city is owed nearly $2 million in unpaid traffic tickets.
No one so far has actually had their utilities turned off because of the tickets.
Article here.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/news/las-cruces-leaders-get-heat-red-light-camera-ticke/nNN7b/