Indiana Drivers Beware -- Electronic Speeding Tickets Coming Soon
The Indiana Supreme Court announced a special pilot program to test a system to issue electronic tickets to motorists, reports the Indiana Law Blog. The system would keep the tickets in a centralized computer. The days of getting ticket diversion in several counties might be a thing of the past if the state starts keeping track of all tickets and warnings in a master computer database.
Advises the Indiana Supreme Court in a news release:
Indiana’s Judicial and Executive branches have received more than $2.4 million in federal grants to launch a statewide electronic ticket system called eCWS (electronic Citation and Warning System) that will give law enforcement officers the ability to produce electronic tickets in the field and relay that information to a central repository for law enforcement, prosecutors and the courts without additional data entry or the need to decipher handwriting.
Current pilot officers include two Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Officers and a Trooper from the Indiana State Police, an Officer with the Fishers Police Department and a Deputy from the Boone County Sheriffs Department.
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posted by Chris Hedges at
4:27 PM
2 Comments:
This project has mixed results for the general people of Indiana. One thing that is both good and bad (depending on if you're the one getting the tickets) is that this will allow fewer officers to write more tickets. Yeah, this means more speeding tickets for you but it also means safter roads and more money going to the state without raising taxes. Now, the other good thing that this means for the people of Indiana is that police activity can be more accurate. For example, my girl friend was in a fender bender where somebody rear-ended her. She showed her proof of insurance and everything went as you would expect. A couple months later, the state sent her a letter saying she needed to provide proof of insurance. Well, she had done it once but figured she'd do it again so she called her insurance company up and had them send the state a standard form showing proof of insurance. Then the day before Thanksgiving, she got a notice saying her drivers license had been suspended because she did not provide proof of insurance. Well, long story short, the cop wrote down the wrong year for her car so they kept ignoring the proofs of insurance that were being provided and she erroneously had a suspended license for over a week while this was worked out.
Hi Anon,
Sorry to hear about the bureaucratic nightmare your girlfriend went through as she kept providing proof of insurance that was ignored. Having accuracy in warnings and tickets will be a good thing if it keeps people from having to go through what your girlfriend experienced.
I suspect it will make things safer since people won't be allowed to get warnings in various counties that might not have been picked up by the BMV in the past.
But, I wonder if our insurance companies will be able to monitor the system to see if customers are getting warnings.
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