Do you live in New Jersey, but travel around states where a traffic enforcement camera could ruin your day? You may soon be able to put that fear aside, thanks to a new bipartisan bill going through the state's legislature.
Autoblog reports the bill would prohibit the New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission from sharing plate numbers and related identification to another state or an interstate information network for the sole purpose of levying fines on New Jersey drivers. The bill, which targets the aforementioned cameras and other similar traffic enforcement devices, was introduced to the assembly in July, and made its appearance before the senate last week.
The reasoning behind the bill, sponsored by Republican assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon and Democrat senators Nick Sacco and Nick Scutari, is that the cameras put the blame on the owner of the vehicle in question, and not upon the driver behind the wheel at the time the vehicle was caught on-camera. The same criticism led city officials in Baltimore, Md. into scrapping the city's cameras, and the state legislature in South Dakota to protect its constituents from Iowa's line of cameras along the border shared between the two states.
Enforcement of the law may prove difficult should the New Jersey bill be enacted, as there is no specific language on how to block information access from out-of-state automated enforcement while allowing for human enforcement to proceed unhindered.
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