HB225 would prohibit the use of “automatic traffic enforcement safety devices” to enforce speeding violations in “school zones.”

The House passed HB225 on March 4, 2025, by a vote of 129 to 37. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would effectively ban “school zone” ticket cameras, one of the baneful and coercive type of “policing-for-profit” schemes employed by local governments. Georgia law already allows local police to enforce traffic laws and issue moving violations. The use of these “school zone” ticket cameras from third-party (and potentially foreign-owned) companies is nothing other than a corrupt, techno-authoritarian method to unconstitutionally tax citizens. It infringes upon the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, specifically the accused’s right to privacy and due process.