All fines are required under state law to go to the public schools. Cities keep the amount that covers their operating costs for the cameras. In 2008 a judge ruled that the state owes schools $748 million in civil fines. They're still waiting for the money.
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Originally Posted by rory breaker
1 - we are talking speed cameras not red light, just being specific. Do speed cameras fall under that as well?
2 - just googled to validate myself and found this re Charlotte. "Oh wait, we need to give the revenue to children, not for our own benefit politically? Ew. Forget it then." Safety, ha! Scumbags.
"The city quit using the cameras after the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled a decade ago that 90 percent of the revenue from the program must be given to the local board of education, which in Charlotte’s case would be Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools."
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