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• Source: KNXV-TV
• Date: February 06, 2008
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Joe Ducey , Dan Siegel
• Topics: Courts
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: Roughly one in five photo enforcement citations are dismissed because of a legal loophole. The ABC15 Investigators combed through more than 300,000 citations from Phoenix, Mesa, and Scottsdale, and found a large number of cases thrown out because the tickets were not properly served. Sometimes, cameras make mistakes. It happened to us when our producer got a speeding ticket, but because the ticket was issued to the wrong vehicle in the picture we were cleared. Most often, though, people get out of a ticket through a huge legal loophole in Arizona, one that requires photo enforcement tickets to be personally served.