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The Statehouse News Bureau provides educational, comprehensive coverage of legislation, elections, issues and other activities surrounding the Statehouse to Ohio's public radio and television stations.

Ohio Supreme Court To Rule Whether Lower Court Can Block Cuts For Traffic Camera Law Noncompliance

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that cities have the right to operate traffic cameras. Now the court is deciding whether a lower court can block a plan to cut state funding to certain communities using those cameras. A trial court held the state in contempt for putting into the last budget a requirement to cut funding to cities that were not complying with a 2015 state traffic camera law. Part of that law was found unconstitutional. Joe McNamara argued for the city of Toledo, which had 44 traffic cameras. “How do you build something on something that’s a void? If you’re building a house over a void, it falls into the void because there is no foundation.”But Michael Hendershot with the attorney general’s office said the lower court was wrong in blocking the funding cuts. “The idea that any trial court can tell the Assembly not to legislate, I think, is a fairly shocking proposition.”Lawmakers are looking over a bill that would revise the funding cuts formula, which the state says is not a camera ban but a funding incentive. Copyright 2018 The Statehouse News Bureau. To see more, visit The Statehouse News Bureau.

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