House to debate bill outlawing traffic cameras
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[February 04, 2012]

House to debate bill outlawing traffic cameras

OTTUMWA, Feb 04, 2012 (Ottumwa Courier - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Ottumwa's downtown surveillance cameras would not be affected by a bill headed to the Iowa House focused on banning automated cameras to enforce traffic laws.


Police Chief Jim Clark said the traffic cameras and Ottumwa's downtown cameras are completely separate, and will not be affected.

Ottumwa also does not use the traffic cameras, Clark said.


The bill, which was approved 15-6 by the House Transportation Committee Thursday, now goes to the full House for debate.

The bill would require municipalities using the traffic cameras to remove them by July, while others would be banned from using the cameras at all.

While law enforcement officials have said the cameras slow traffic, Clark said they're unnecessary in Ottumwa.

"At this point in time, we don't think we need those types of cameras here in Ottumwa," Clark said. "For them to be really effective, you have to have an intersection or a strip of area that has a high rate of accidents with a lot of injuries, and we just don't have that." Clark said unless the Ottumwa City Council directed him to research the issue, he wouldn't pursue the cameras.

"We don't have an intersection where we have half a dozen people die a year because it's so dangerous people are running stop signs," Clark said. "And we don't have a strip of area where, because people are speeding so much, we have a lot of serious accidents." ___ (c)2012 the Ottumwa Courier (Ottumwa, Iowa) Visit the Ottumwa Courier (Ottumwa, Iowa) at www.ottumwacourier.com Distributed by MCT Information Services

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