Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras

The next time that I’m driving down to Biloxi, I’m going to defiantly run a few lights to get there faster, because:

The Sun Herald reports that

Mississippi’s capital city will stop issuing tickets and collecting fines when automatic cameras snap pictures of vehicles running red lights, city attorney Sarah O’Reilly Evans says.

The change in Jackson is being made immediately, even though a new state law sets an Oct. 1 deadline for the cameras to be taken down in the only two cities already using them – Jackson and Columbus.

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