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Revelations about Xerox State and Local Solutions should prompt audits of city and county speed camera systems.

The City Council has lots of questions to ask the Rawlings-Blake administration about its troubled speed camera program.

The City Council decided Monday to launch an investigation into the secret audit of Baltimore's speed camera system that found error rates much higher than officials have claimed publicly.

Driver advocacy group AAA Mid-Atlantic and some lawmakers urged local governments to conduct audits of their speed camera programs Thursday after learning that a secret audit last year of Baltimore's program documented far higher error rates than previously disclosed.

Baltimore's speed cameras likely charged motorists for thousands more erroneous tickets than previously disclosed, according to data from a secret audit conducted for the city last year and obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore's speed cameras likely charged motorists for thousands more erroneous tickets than previously disclosed, according to data from a secret audit conducted for the city last year and obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

City Councilman Brandon Scott wants the city to release an independent, taxpayer-funded audit of speed camera tickets that were issued by Baltimore's former contractor, saying the public's right to know trumps the contention by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration that the findings are confidential.

Emails show that the city's former speed camera contractor approved a speeding ticket for another vehicle that couldn't possibly have been going too fast — because it was parked.

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Records released by the city last week show that problems with Baltimore's speed and red-light camera vendor persisted over a three-month testing period that continued into late October.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pledged Wednesday to move forward with a new but smaller speed camera system despite the spate of problems that plagued Baltimore's last two speed camera vendors. She spoke after officials voted to terminate the most recent contract for running the city's system, once the largest in North America.

Despite the troubles of its program, Baltimore should not abandon the use of speed cameras to slow motorists in school zones.

Baltimore plans to pay its speed camera vendor $600,000 to end a troubled relationship that has left the city's once lucrative automated enforcement program offline since April and some members of the City Council questioning whether it's time to pull the plug altogether.

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Baltimore's speed camera program was too large to be managed effectively; it should seek a new operator and a drastically scaled-back system.

Baltimore is moving to sever ties with its speed camera vendor amid unresolved problems — an action that could leave the city's huge speed and red-light camera system down until the middle of next year.

Six months after Baltimore pulled its speed and red light cameras offline because of mistakes, officials say the city's vendor still isn't ready to begin issuing tickets — and no one can say when the program will resume.

Baltimore County officials failed to ensure that 12 county speed cameras underwent a required calibration check this year, prompting officials to void more than 1,400 citations and take all dozen cameras out of service for more than a month.

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Two months after Baltimore stopped issuing tickets from its speed and red-light cameras, city officials said Thursday they still don't know when the automated enforcement program will resume.

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Baltimore issued more than 16,000 speed camera tickets in less than two months this year before shutting the troubled program down over a programming error, according to figures posted by the city.

Baltimore officials are refusing to pay the city's former speed and red-light camera operator $2 million for its final three months of work, a period that preceded the troubled start for the new contractor in January.

In the latest sign of the dysfunction dogging Baltimore's speed camera program, the city said Tuesday it will throw out more than 6,000 speed and red light camera tickets because its former contractor has stopped showing up in court to defend them.

Shutting down Baltimore's speed camera system over relatively minor errors is a strong symbolic gesture, but it needs to be followed by real reforms.

Baltimore officials announced Tuesday they have suspended the city's troubled speed camera program amid fresh reports of erroneous tickets, this time involving a new multimillion-dollar camera network. The Baltimore Sun found that one of those new cameras has been issuing invalid tickets to motorists on The Alameda, apparently because the camera was programmed with the wrong speed limit.

Baltimore's Board of Estimates on Wednesday formally approved the purchase of a new fleet of speed cameras and the replacement of a police-towing company accused of overcharging customers.