AZ 1st state to adopt automated cameras to catch speeders in Oct 2008

Also 1st to stop using them to appease conservative activists

Complained photo enforcement intruded on privacy

Also mainly designed to raise money

Monkey-masked man fought dozens of tickets in court; vandals attacked cameras w/ Silly String and pickax

Mobile speed camera operator murdered and state sued

Revenue projections from the tickets fell short because violators ignored them

Less than 1/3 of 1.2M tickets issued by 76 cameras were paid

State collected $78M instead of $120M annually projected

Violators tested legal theory that tickets had to be served in person

Governor Brewer allowed Redflex Traffic Systems contract to expire

Voters to decide if they will be reinstated