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City considers more traffic cameras and ALPR; municipal court warns of staffing limits
Summary
Officials said funding would allow more speed and red‑light cameras, but municipal court warned current staffing cannot absorb a large increase in tickets; court recommended adding a commissioner and clerks if camera counts rise substantially. SPD seeks to adopt an updated ALPR policy and WAPA grant will fund an initial Flock deployment.
Howard, a municipal court official, told the committee that adding cameras would increase the court’s workload and that current staffing is insufficient to absorb a large expansion without additional positions.
Howard reported 2024 photo‑enforcement data showing an average of about 1,678 tickets per camera approach per year, with roughly 511 contested in person and about 7,667 contested by mail (Howard clarified that “by mail” submissions are electronic uploads to the vendor portal, not paper mail). He said contested in‑person and by‑mail cases consume most staff time and that the…
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