speed cameras - what could be so bad

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City official discussed "tap" of employee's emails over suspected speed camera leak
City official discussed "tap" of emails from employee suspected of speed camera leaks - Baltimore Sun

A Baltimore transportation official asked the agency's director if he'd been able to "tap into" email records of an employee suspected of leaking information to The Baltimore Sun about the city's troubled speed camera program, according to records obtained under the Public Information Act.

The question came in a Dec. 18 email from James Harkness, the head of the division that oversees the mothballed speed and red-light camera program.

Were you able to tap into email records of the individual I suspect of being the 'source' in Luke's article?" Harkness asked Transportation Director William M. Johnson, referring to Sun reporter Luke Broadwater. (Editor's note: Sun reporter Scott Calvert also has reported extensively on speed cameras.)

Harkness sent the email on the day the Board of Estimates agreed to pay Brekford Corp. $600,000 to terminate its five-year contract. A month earlier, The Sun reported that the city was moving to cut ties, citing sources familiar with talks between the city and the Anne Arundel County firm

and why would they want to terminate such a lucrative contract...

Secret audit found city speed cameras had high error rates
Secret audit found city speed cameras had high error rates - Baltimore Sun

Check out the error rate. According to the WUSA story, one camera had a 58% error rate.

and you wonder what could go wrong, it's a machine, it's infallible.
 
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