Speeders: Give us $3M back from traffic cameras

Associated Press

NEW MIAMI, OHIO

Drivers cited because of speed cameras want a southwest Ohio village to pay back more than $3 million in collected fines after a judge found the cameras unconstitutional.

New Miami issued nearly 45,000 citations through 15 months of using the cameras between 2012 and 2014. The village collected about $1.8 million from the fines, and the traffic company that ran the program was paid $1.2 million, or 40 percent of the total collected.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports the motorists’ attorneys are asking a judge to have the village pay the total, not just the portion of the fines it kept.