Iowa lawmakers: New S.D. traffic camera law could lead to broader conflicts

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http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/iowa-lawmakers-new-s-d-traffic-camera-law-could-lead/article_e9ebb2f1-558d-51ef-b115-a14b3480ec61.html

Iowa lawmakers: New S.D. traffic camera law could lead to broader conflicts
9 hours ago • MIKE WISER Journal Des Moines Bureau

DES MOINES | A new law that protects South Dakotans from Iowa traffic camera tickets is raising the ire of law enforcement officials in Sioux City and questions in Des Moines.

Last week, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed into law House Bill 2211, essentially giving his citizens the ability to breeze by automated traffic cameras with impunity.

The law prohibits South Dakota’s government from enforcing fines levied on the state’s residents as a result of automated cameras. South Dakota courts are not allowed to file wage garnishments, file reports with credit bureaus or otherwise be used in the collection of such fines.

“We occasionally talk about policy diffusion in politics, where one state does something, so it gets copied by other states,” said Christopher Larimer, a political science professor at the University of Northern Iowa. “This sounds like policy diffusion in reverse. Not only are you not adopting, you’re preventing that state from enforcing its own policy.”

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1. Hmmm, did South Dakota get rid of their cameras?

I got a traffic camera ticket in downtown Sioux Falls a few years ago.