red light cameras

Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is now recording the border crossings of U.S. citizens.

If you drive or walk back into the country from Canada or Mexico, the federal government will store that information for up to 15 years and has a right to share the data with any domestic law enforcement agency.

Police say that Austin's only red light camera has taken 80 photos, but only four have resulted in tickets.

On Thursday a civil rights group encouraged drivers who do get tickets from red light cameras to fight those tickets.

Photo-based system will be activated at the intersection of the I-35 northbound service road and 11th Street.

Austin drivers will be seeing red light cameras at Austin intersections within the next couple of weeks.

From the Orange County Register “Special license plates shield officials from traffic tickets”:

Vehicles registered to motorists who are affiliated with 1,800 state and local agencies and who are allowed to shield their addresses under the Confidential Records Program.

The city plans to install nine red light cameras throughout Austin this semester. Officials expect the cameras to go online on May 1, said Gene Acuña, a city spokesman.

The city's Public Works Department narrowed down a list of 20 intersections identified as having the most collisions in 2006 and 2007 caused by someone running a red light, Acuña said.

Red light cameras are coming to an intersection near you. On Friday the city of Austin revealed the roads where it will mount cameras to catch red light runners in...