Ruston outlines traffic-camera rollout, court setup and new ALPR limits

City staff described early administrative steps for a planned automated traffic-camera program and warned of new state restrictions on license-plate readers. Chief of Police Nestor Bautista told the council that NovoaGlobal holds the site contract for the traffic-camera project and that the city must establish an administrative hearing process — including selection of a hearing venue, an appointed hearing examiner and a court clerk to handle citations. The council was told the Mary Joyce Community Center has been selected as the venue and that a police officer will serve temporarily as court clerk while the city seeks a hearing examiner (the prosecutor’s office would be a conflict of interest).