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Bill to modernize red‑light camera enforcement advances with civil fines and privacy guardrails
Summary
The committee advanced SB 720, which lets cities opt into a modernized automated red‑light enforcement program that uses rear‑facing license‑plate imaging, shifts civil liability to vehicle owners, eliminates facial-identification requirements and directs funds to street‑safety projects.
Sen. Ashby presented SB 720, the Safer Streets Act, to allow local jurisdictions to opt into a modernized automated traffic enforcement program for high‑collision locations. The bill would shift liability for red‑light camera citations to vehicle owners (not criminal driver identification), convert violations to civil penalties (no driver's-license points), restrict the use of facial recognition and require procedural safeguards…
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