Councilor Files Ethics Complaint Against Red Light Camera Committee

From KOAT-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Only four days until Election Day and the future of the city's Red Light Camera committee is quickly becoming the biggest ballot item. Redflex, the camera operator, has donated $52,000 in the past week to keep their multimillion dollar investment from going dark. Their total contribution has already reached more than $140,000. In the countdown to Tuesday's election, the big question looms if voters will decide to keep them or get rid of them. "They went through the red light. They committed the violation, and then they backed out and said, 'Well, we corrected things,'" said Councilor Dan Lewis, of the Albuquerque City Council. Lewis filed two ethics complaints earlier in the week, saying the committee failed to properly file campaign materials, and the other saying because of all those donations, the committee's name is legally misleading. "Every piece of mail Safe Roads Albuquerque has sent out says 'Safe Roads ABQ', when they were required by law to have Redflex on those pieces of mail," Lewis said. The complaints were discussed at a city ethics board meeting Friday afternoon. No final decision or hearing was decided but council members said it is likely that it won't happen before Tuesday. Read more

Councilor Files Ethics Complaint Against Red Light Camera Committee