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Mon. 8:45 p.m.: Tenn. company wants dismissal of traffic cam suit

WARREN – The Tennessee-based company working with Girard to operate a program that generates traffic tickets using radar and cameras argues a lawsuit naming it as a co-defendant should be dismissed because it is the city that has the authority to issue the citations, not the company, according to court documents.

Blue Line Solutions and Girard are being sued by numerous plaintiffs being represented by Cleveland attorney Marc Dann, Ohio’s former attorney general.

The suit comes after motorists traveling between Dec. 7, 2017, and Jan. 6 on Interstate 80 through Girard were ticketed because the speed limit, which was lowered to 55 mph during a period of construction, should have been raised back to 65 mph when the construction ended Dec. 7, 2017.

Dann argues the legal speed limit returned to 65 mph, but the city and Blue Line Solutions ticketed people as if the limit was 55 mph, leading to 7,000 erroneous tickets during that time period.

Read more in Tuesday’s Tribune Chronicle.

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