Fresno drivers will soon be monitored by red light cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Fresno City Council approved the development of an automated red-light camera pilot program on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The backstory: Last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 720 into law, allowing cities to establish red-light camera systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SB 720 established the Safer Streets Program to allow red light cameras across the state. Previously, only a handful of cities \u2013 including Los Angeles, San Jose and San Francisco \u2013 were allowed such programs under state law.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Previous state law also required jurisdictions to identify the driver of the vehicle. Now, cities can issue violations to the owner of the vehicle in question. Fresno used to have a red-light camera program that it axed in 2005 due to a lack of revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bill also changed the penalty for violators, dropping fines from $500 to $100.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The big picture: The red-light pilot program was introduced by Councilmembers Nelson Esparza and Annalisa Perea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It passed during the consent agenda portion of Thursday\u2019s meeting alongside other proposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we\u2019re watching: Thursday\u2019s action by the council directs city administration to develop a 36-month pilot program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cameras will be \u201cplaced in locations that are geographically and socioeconomically diverse,\u201d according to the resolution, as well as locations that have supporting traffic data.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City staff will return to the council with a list of proposed locations for the red-light cameras and a cost estimate to implement and administer the program within 90 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno drivers will soon be monitored by red light cameras.\u00a0 The Fresno City Council approved the development of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-375405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}