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Drivers who appeal school speed zone camera fines almost guaranteed to lose

Drivers who try to appeal a fine from new school speed zone cameras are almost guaranteed to lose. Katie LaGrone explains why the law is making it almost impossible for drivers to win.

Still, Bowman quickly realized she was fighting a losing battle after Magistrate Santarlas explained how the law, essentially, allows drivers to get fined even if the sign isn’t flashing. “I think that actually speaks to the effectiveness of the program,” said David De La Espriella, a former assistant police chief in Miami Beach who now works as a client relations director for RedSpeed. He answered the magistrates’ questions about signage requirements as more than half a dozen drivers tried to challenge their fines but lost to a law, many of them said, that makes it impossible for them to win.

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