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The proposed red-light cameras would violate the most basic principle of American justice: that a person is innocent until proven guilty (“Traffic proposals signal stricter safety rules,” Star-Advertiser, Feb. 3). Moving violations must be issued to the driver of a vehicle, not the owner. Citing registered owners places them in the position of having to prove that they were not driving the vehicles when the violations took place.
As I recall, the main objections to the previous van cams were not because a private company was involved, but because they raised this same legal point. When van cam citations to registered owners were contested in court, the judge dismissed them because it was not proven that the owner was the driver. Do we have to go through this same process yet again?
Edward Conklin
Waikiki
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