To the Honorable Menlo Park Officials,
Ticket cameras have a long history of being a dirty business.
Redflex has a particularly poor history of felonious behavior.

Regards,

James C. WalkerLife Member - National Motorists Association



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Top Fourteen Photo Enforcement Felons [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/64/6450.asp]Posted: 02 Nov 2018 01:03 AM PDTSix camera
felons [http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/pix/tenrogues.jpg] [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/64/6450.asp]Scandal has dogged the
use of automated cameras to issue traffic tickets to the owners of vehicles since the first citation was issued more than a
century ago (the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachussets considered a speed camera case in 1910). Many of the politicians and
officials working for photo ticketing companies have been convicted of serious misconduct.

The latest photo enforcement scandal involves the use of cameras mounted on school buses to issue tickets to vehicle owners in
Dallas, Texas. Robert Carl Leonard Jr [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/65/6538.asp], the CEO of bus camera provider Force
Multiplier Solutions, in 2018 admitted he bribed Dallas officials to secure a photo ticketing deal that earned his company $70
million. Federal agents seized $738,167 in Leonard's cash, along with a Bentley Continental GT, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, art and
jewelry. He awaits sentencing along with the others involved in the scheme.

Ricky Dale Sorrells [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/64/6436.asp], then Dallas County Schools superintendent, in 2018 admitted he
took $3 million in kickbacks from Leonard in return for signing the school bus ticketing camera contract that ultimately caused
the dissolution of Dallas County Schools.

Larry Duncan [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/65/6574.asp], then the Dallas County Schools board president and a former city
councilman, was busted for fraud after he took $245,000 in campaign contributions from Leonard in return for his help advancing
the bus cameras deal. Instead of using the funds for legitimate political purposes, Duncan spent the majority of the cash on
himself.

Dwaine Caraway [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/65/6525.asp], at the time a powerful member of the Dallas city council, admitted
he took $450,000 in bribes from Force Multiplier Solutions. His vocal advocacy of automated ticketing helped sway fellow council
members into approving the ticketing program that proved financially disastrous.

Slater Washburn Swartwood Sr [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/63/6373.asp] in 2017 admitted that he laundered money to help
conceal the bribery payments to Dallas County Schools and to Caraway.

Smith County, Texas, Judge Joel P. Baker [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/51/5104.asp] entered a plea of no contest in 2016 to a
misdemeanor violation of the state's open meeting laws for signing an illegal speed camera contract with American Traffic
Solutions behind closed doors. The state Commission on Judicial Conduct forced Baker to resign his position, and the state Court
of Appeals rejected further attempts to keep the photo ticketing proceedings [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/52/5259.asp]
secret.

Redflex Traffic Systems, the Australian provider of red light cameras and speed cameras, found itself embroiled in a sprawling
corruption investigation involving envelopes filled with cash [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/43/4320.asp] handed to politicians
in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and
Washington according to the company's former executive vice president, Aaron M. Rosenberg.

Rosenberg entered a guilty plea [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/49/4935.asp] on two counts of bribery in 2016. He was sentenced
to just three months of home confinement, 120 hours of community service and ten hours of online ethics training in return for his
testimony against colleagues.

Redflex lobbyist John P. Raphael [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/50/5032.asp] was convicted of soliciting bribes for speed
camera contracts for Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio councilmen. Because he kept quiet, Raphael protected these powerful local
officials from being charged with accepting his bribes. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison on the federal charge of
interference with commerce by threats. He was released on October 30, 2017.

Martin O'Malley [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/50/5042.asp], a Redflex contractor and the bagman in the Chicago, Illinois,
bribery scheme [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/50/5081.asp], passed cash from Redflex to John Bills
[http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/48/4883.asp], the deputy director of Chicago's transportation department in return for the
assistance of Bills in expanding the red light camera program into the largest in the nation. O'Malley was released on June 30,
2017 after serving six months behind bars. Bills is currently imprisoned in Pensacola, Florida, and will be released on August 12,
2024.

Karen Finley [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/50/5084.asp], former head of US operations Redflex Traffic Systems, wrote the
checks for the bribes handed out in Chicago and Ohio. She is currently behind bars in Phoenix, Arizona until December 5, 2018.

Long before Rosenberg's admissions, Shawn Brown [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/23/2363.asp], the former mayor of St. Peters,
Missouri, was caught soliciting bribes from Redflex. He was jailed in the federal prison in Duluth, Minnesota, from April 2007 to
August 1, 2008.

Jay Morris Specter [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/15/1563.asp] was the next to fall. While serving as the top salesman for
American Traffic Solutions, he was convicted of forgery in his personal business. He actively negotiated major speed and red light
camera contracts for ATS while under indictment. Specter was convicted in January 2007 and was released from the federal prison in
Edgefield, South Carolina, on September 21, 2010. Specter had previously worked as a salesman for Redflex.

Karen Coppens [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/25/2536.asp], a Washington DC police officer, embezzled $178,611 from the city's
speed camera program. She admitted guilt on two counts of felony theft from a program receiving federal funds and was sentenced to
a year in the federal prison in Marianna, Florida on September 12, 2008. She was released on May 20, 2010. Source
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