The "traffic cameras" are not the same cameras as the speeding cameras. The traffic ones are really high in the corners of intersections, generally above the street lights. The speeding cameras, are low, and on their own pole. They have a box around them and a huge strobe light that you can see flash in your rear view if you just blew through the intersection. Apparently they record when tripped. The strobe flashes to capture liscence plate. They're blinding to anyone going the other direction and annoy the crap out of me. They are much better cameras, as the one ticket I got (Sunday morning, Johnston st. 44mph, speed limit, 40. It's the only time you can go faster than 40, I didn't realize I was!) you could see me perfectly, inside of my car. Seriously. The color of my eyes close. Ugh! Invasion of privacy if there ever was one. The closest REDFLEX (private company that owns the red light cameras) camera to Mickey would have been north at the intersection of University and Agnes/Simcoe or intersection of South College and Johnston.
As far as the phone goes, I'm sure they have it tagged to notify them if it pings again, but I think they have all they're going to get from her phone. I think the phone technology has come a long way, especially when you consider I can tap "find my phone" and it instantly shows me on a map where the phone that are on my account are, within a few feet. My husband and I can find each other at festivals, Marci GRAS, and Disney world (haha, but it works), and the best part is I can see where my son is. It could be false security if I solely depended on that, but its comforting.
Class action lawsuits? I don't think so. And, those camera on top of the light posts are ours. Our tax dollars pay for them. I'm fine with that. "Monitor traffic" all day ad night, but as far as I'm concerned, those cameras should record and be able to be used for investigation. My goodness, recording them would save so much man power in terms of investigative work! I'm pretty sure the recording would have to be accessible to tax payers, the same way we are able to go into LCG's website and view the live view. Otherwise, it would be a giant invasion of privacy. And, sorry people, I am not all about living in a police state. I also, since this has happened have cameras on every corner of my house. They record three weeks of time, but only Record when there is movement, so realistically, longer than three weeks. I would like to believe that LE does not make their decisions based on fear of class actions. Some class actions get out of had,yes, but really, they help A LOT of people, that have been wronged by greedy corporations, that otherwise may not have had the resources to go after the corporation on their own. Its a power in numbers thing. It also frees up the judicial system a bit, instead of handling each case on a case by case basis. That would be too tedious and hard to regulate across multiple cases.
Again, my own opinion.
Have you, or anyone, heard from MamaMia?
Where are you MICKEY???
