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Legislation that would have placed stricter limits on where local governments could put speed cameras and required them to appoint ombudsmen to hear complaints died in the General Assembly Monday night.

The Maryland Senate on Monday overwhelmingly passed a weakened speed camera reform bill that would bar local governments from paying vendors based on the volume of citations but wouldn't ensure motorists had the necessary information to fact-check their own citations.

A task force studying Baltimore's troubled speed camera program will urge the city to increase oversight of the process, change the way camera sites are chosen and create a new speed camera website containing maps and other information for the public.

The Howard County Police school zone speed camera program has reduced speeding in traffic accidents in school zone roadways, leading Police Chief William McMahon to call the program an early success.

The state Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday to bar the state and local governments from paying speed camera contractors based on ticket volume and to require that all automated speeding tickets issued in Maryland give drivers enough information to fact-check their own citations.

Baltimore's new speed camera vendor says it lost $1.2 million last year, thanks in part to a rocky start in the city.

Baltimore's new speed camera vendor says it lost $1.2 million last year, thanks in part to a rocky start in the city.

A judge has ruled that Baltimore County's contract with its speed camera vendor is illegal, because it pays the company a cut of each citation issued — a ruling that could help others challenge their citations in court.

Baltimore plans to a hire a private company to oversee an overhaul of its speed and red light camera system — and audit tickets to ensure accuracy, city officials said Tuesday.

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Baltimore transportation officials say the city's new speed cameras won't be susceptible to the errors that have plagued the city's previous cameras. But radar experts say it's not that simple. They predict that the new cameras will reduce — but not eliminate — errors like erroneous speed readings.

Members of Baltimore's state legislative delegation chastised city transportation officials Friday for problems with the city's speed cameras as the General Assembly prepares to take up several bills meant to reform automated enforcement in the city and across Maryland.

Baltimore police officials said Thursday the department is doubling to 25 the number of officers available to review speed camera tickets — one of several moves intended to help prevent the issuance of erroneous citations, which has cast a cloud over the city's program in recent months.

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Baltimore's inability to run its speed cameras after a vendor departed puts the lie to the notion that the city is the "operator" of the program.

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Speed camera companies and local governments would be penalized $1,000 for each "bogus" citation issued to motorists under proposed legislation announced Monday by state Del. Jon Cardin. The Baltimore County Democrat also wants to require governments in Maryland to submit regular speed camera audits to the General Assembly. And he wants to help ensure the accuracy of tickets by mandating precise time stamps on the two photos mailed to drivers as evidence of their speeding.