The village charges $60 for violations\u00a0and is eligible for about 60% of the revenue, court filings show. Saddle Rock received more than $434,000 from the violations between 2022, when the program was implemented, through 2024, an attorney for the village confirmed in written responses to questions as part of the lawsuit,\u00a0court records show.\u00a0Village officials have not said whether that was the gross revenue\u00a0the village raised from the tickets, or the net, after the vendor’s share was paid.<\/p>\n
Luper received three notices of violation for $60 each from September 2022 through August 2024, according to both lawsuits. Luper has paid the fines, filings show. She lives in the Village of Kings Point, which neighbors Saddle Rock on the Great Neck peninsula. Saddle Rock has about 1,000 residents.<\/p>\n
WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND<\/p>\n
\u00a0A pair of lawsuits, one in state court and another in federal, seeks to stop Saddle Rock Village’s stop-sign camera program.<\/p>\n
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Saddle Rock has received\u00a0more than $434,000 in revenue, according to court records.<\/p>\n
While critics say the program is a cash grab, and is illegal,\u00a0village officials say the initiative is intended to curb reckless driving.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no authority granted the Village of Saddle Rock under New York Law to use such a system,\u201d Jonathan Silver, Luper\u2019s Queens-based attorney in both cases, wrote in the federal complaint. The company has yet to file a response to the federal lawsuit, court filings show.<\/p>\n
Marky A. Suazo, Stop for Kids\u2019 Manhattan-based lawyer, declined to comment. Officials from Stop for Kids did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Maureen Casey, the village’s Albertson-based attorney, has denied the claims in the state case and sought its dismissal. The village is now being represented by Susan Mauro, also of Albertson, in the litigation.\u00a0Mauro could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
Revenue revealed<\/p>\n
Court documents revealed details about the nearly 4-year-old enforcement program.<\/p>\n
Ticket revenue is shared between Stop for Kids and Saddle Rock,\u00a0court records show. Through written responses, Casey confirmed that the village received\u00a0more than $434,000\u00a0from the stop sign violations over a three-year period: $60,602\u00a0in 2022; $163,740.88 in 2023; and $210,302.26 in 2024. Casey did not specify whether that money was just the village’s share.<\/p>\n
Former Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy said the village keeps about 60% of all ticket revenue, amounting to $33.80 per ticket, according to a transcript of a March 27 deposition in the state case. Stripe, a financial services program, gets $2.04 per ticket,\u00a0Levy told Silver. Stop for Kids receives a processing fee of about $1.50 to $1.80, as well as the remaining balance, about $22.<\/p>\n
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The camera system in Saddle Rock, pictured here in April. Credit: Dawn McCormick<\/p>\n
The village did not respond to a request to share how much revenue\u00a0it has collected from the program. Kamran Barelli, a former village trustee, has been listed as\u00a0a principal of Stop For Kids, Newsday has reported. Barelli could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
A total of 6,760 tickets were mailed during the 12-month period ending on\u00a0Dec. 19, 2025,\u00a0Suazo wrote in a letter to Silver late last year.<\/p>\n
The program was implemented in summer 2022. Levy previously defended the program as a crucial safety tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole concept is to make my neighborhood more secure,\u201d Levy told Newsday at the time. \u201cI’m not looking for 60 bucks. I don’t need it. We have plenty of money in the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n
Critics have said the program could not be implemented without\u00a0corresponding state legislation. Before red light camera and bus stop-sign camera programs were in effect on Long Island, the state legislature had authorized\u00a0their implementation.<\/p>\n
In May 2023, State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) introduced a bill to allow the villages of Saddle Rock, Upper Brookville, Flower Hill, East Hampton, Westbury and Southampton to install and operate “stop sign photo violation monitoring systems.” But the bill never made it out of committee, according to the State Senate’s website. Martins then introduced a similar bill in April 2025, applying to villages in a county where the population is between 1 million and 1.53 million. That bill remains in committee.<\/p>\n
Martins said in an interview he had heard from village officials, school board members, civic members and others\u00a0looking for “an alternative to provide a way of enforcing.”<\/p>\n
“We hear from our local communities constantly that people ignore stop signs,” Martins said. “Allowing municipalities, villages or towns the opportunity to place cameras on stop signs, I think, is an important tool for the local community.”<\/p>\n
‘Not the most popular program’<\/p>\n
The village conducted a trial analysis at the corner of Byron Lane and Emerson Drive over three months in 2022, according to an affidavit signed by Levy. Between February and April that year, more than 18,000\u00a0cars were observed at the intersection. About\u00a08%\u00a0of all cars observed came to a full stop, the affidavit stated.<\/p>\n
In May 2022, the village board hired Stop For Kids to enforce the ticketing program. The village\u00a0approved a law and sent emails to residents warning them about the monitoring. Initially, warnings were issued to drivers who did not comply, the affidavit stated. In\u00a0September, the village discontinued the program and saw compliance fall.\u00a0The next month, the program was reinstated. About 95% of all vehicles came to a full stop,\u00a0Levy’s affidavit said.<\/p>\n
Levy’s filing noted that the village has no sidewalks and defended the program as “a reasonable and nondiscriminatory effort” to address residents’ concerns. That\u00a0included, he said,\u00a0“walking dogs and traveling with strollers without fear of being hit by a car failing to stop at a stop sign.”<\/p>\n
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The camera system employed by the Village of Saddle Rock. Credit: Dawn McCormick<\/p>\n
In an interview, Silver called the stop sign camera program \u201ca money-making operation.”<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we want to live in a world where every village can issue camera tickets for every intersection because they feel like it? Is that what we want to do? Do we want to allow a village, for example, to record where you are, at what time, where you\u2019re going?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stop for Kids, according to the company’s website, is an \u201cAI technology provider dedicated to creating safer communities through innovative road safety solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The website description states: \u201cWe analyze video and perform classifications to generate unbiased evidence that supports road safety programs, improves driving behavior, and reduces traffic risks in school zones and residential neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Joshua Needelman covers the Town of North Hempstead for Newsday. A Long Island native and University of Maryland graduate, his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small Nassau County village on the North Shore has received more than $434,000 from drivers through its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[610,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-217584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}