Deceptive traffic citations

2012Coleman wrote:

2oldman wrote:

senecal.tony wrote:
The purpose of the letter is to warn fellow drivers that the city of Tullos and or Parish of Lasalle in Louisiana has a significant campaign going on to fund city budgets via traffic tickets (commonly know as speed traps).

Wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard that.

You and others on this thread must never have visited the north Florida towns of Waldo and Lawtey.

Waldo and Lawtey were first designated by AAA as speed traps in August 1995, after complaints they were padding their coffers with traffic ticket revenues. Over the years, AAA issued regular warnings and even put up a billboard on the road near the towns. Yet, the tickets continued to be written, and the outcry grew.

In 2015, the Legislature passed a law banning traffic-ticket quotas for law officers, dubbing it the “Waldo Bill.’’

The action came after reports from 2014 that Waldo’s police department was writing speeding tickets based on quotas. The Waldo police later disclose they have ticket quotas and reveal that traffic enforcement accounts for nearly half of the town’s revenue.

The town’s police force was disbanded that year, and now the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office handles traffic enforcement there.

A ban on traffic-ticket quotas was then approved by Fl. lawmakers in 2015. The law also requires a city or county to report to state officials if traffic ticket revenue exceeds a third of the cost of operating its law-enforcement agency.

So what the OP experienced is most likely just as he described it - a speed trap - despite being "schooled" by old timers on here on how to drive. Good grief - maybe you should get caught up in the same situation. It is a real thing.

My advice to the OP is report it to AAA - maybe they will put up similar billboards.