If you drive on the Interstates very much at all, you’ve seen city cops sitting on them with the radar guns out. Most drivers deem these as “speed traps”, and they probably are. State Senator Mitch Seabaugh (R-Sharpsburg) has pre-filed a bill that would end this practice, at least somewhat.
I’ve been thinking about it, and doing some basic research, and honestly I’m torn on the measure. The way I read the section of US Code Seabaugh’s bill references, Seabaugh’s bill would do quite a bit more than just ban the City of Forsyth Police Department from sitting on I-75 – just as an example there.
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