American Traffic Solutions has been kicked out of Houston for the second time in less than a year. This time it was by politicians, which has to sting for the Scottsdale, AZ based camera vendor.

The 11-1 vote to repeal the ordinance that allows for the use of red light cameras really shouldn’t have been necessary, given that the voters of Houston booted them out last November by a landslide.

The cameras had been off for more than six months when they were turned back on by the actions of activist Judge Lynn Hughes and Mayor Annise Parker. Hughes used an obscure rule to overturn the election and Parker reinstated the scamera program with an executive order.

ATS will undoubtedly take the case back to Federal Court, at this point in a desperate move to attempt to collect money they feel they’re owed.

With all the national attention garnered by ATS’s defeats in both Los Angeles and Houston, they are now under a microscope and it will be much more difficult to shop their lawsuits around. Lynn Hughes would most likely lift his original order to keep the cameras up, which does not bode well for ATS.

Video courtesy of MyFoxHouston.

by CameraFRAUD