Traffic camera vendor American Traffic Solutions showed no municipal love as it filed a breach of contract suit against Baytown, Texas on Monday. The St. Valentine’s Day complaint accused the city of failing to approve the mailing of an expected number of red light camera citations generated by the company.
According to court filings, ATS generated 2420 tickets in November 2010, and the city accepted all but 425 — an 82 percent approval rate. The next month, ATS generated 2837 tickets, but the city only approved 587 — a 21 percent rate. By January, the city had only approved two tickets. ATS insists that failure to allow the mailing of tickets constitutes material breach of a contract binding through the year 2019. For its part, the city is unable to approve any tickets because voters approved a referendum in November prohibiting the use of red light cameras unless a police officer is present to witness any alleged offense. ATS has refused to acknowledge this public vote.
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