Add’l Public Records Show Widespread Issue of ‘Privatized Policing for Profit’

The prevalence of small municipalities using privately-owned speed detection cameras to slash speeds and generate revenue is a practice that is only trending upward, in all contexts. After The Georgia Virtue published a piece detailing how policing for profit prohibitions are being circumvented by the use of civil enforcement with the help of private companies, a number of drivers from other municipalities reached out about similar cameras in operation in the City of Bloomingdale in Chatham County and the City of Vidalia in Toombs County.   Last week’s article on the City of Stillmore in Emanuel County highlighted how the city … Continue reading Add’l Public Records Show Widespread Issue of ‘Privatized Policing for Profit’