Ohio Court Rulings Strongly Support Road Safety Camera Programs

SCOTTSDALE, AZ– Despite a recent Hamilton County Common Pleas Court ruling, red-light and speed safety cameras in Ohio remain on strong legal ground. Most notably in 2010 in Mendenhall v. City of Akron, 374 Fed.Appx 598, the US Court of Appeals for the 6thCircuit affirmed the lower Court’s ruling that the City of Akron’s photo enforcement ordinance did not violate due process by imposing civil penalties for speeding violations irrespective of whether the owner was in fact driving the vehicle when the violation was recorded. Additionally, in a similar ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court (