Holy carp! All that for one red light run?
There is a red light cam near me. I was in a hurry and thought I could scoot through on yellow, but the car in front of me stopped and sat there for several seconds before making a right turn, leaving me in the middle of the intersection when the light turned red. I was pushing it, and I take responsibility for that.
I got a ticket in the mail, accompanied by a photo of my tag, my car, and my face, since I drive a convertible -- no getting around that. It cost me $50.
Few jurisdictions send cops to knock on people's doors for a single delinquent traffic ticket -- they send notice by mail. Rack up enough, and you get additional penalties; rack up more and they get a warrant for failure to appear. Again, it's not a high enough priority for them to send officers to execute the warrant, but it's in the system, and you're nailed the next time you get pulled over or need to renew your license.
My reading is that the problem is that the tickets aren't going into the system. Meaning that if a motorist has 20 unpaid tickets, the cop won't know that when he writes another one. That is a problem.
“Holy carp! All that for one red light run?”
That’s right...in Orange county that is...
of course, since they are not enforcing the camera violaters...who cares! LOL
Something is wrong there - the laws I have read say the you may not enter the intersection AFTER the light turns red. That means that if any part of the vehicle is over the limit line when the light goes red you are ok. You may enter the intersection when the light is yellow and if it turns red while you are in the intersection you did not enter when it was red. A good example is when you are making a left turn, you have entered the intersection but must wait for the traffic to clear, you cannot be ticked for waiting to safely pass through. the right turn you describe is the same example.