City of Center Point v. Crowder

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

In 2011, the City of Center Point (“the city”) sought to have the Alabama Legislature pass an act authorizing the city to use cameras for what it characterized as “automated civil enforcement” of certain traffic violations, including speeding and failure to stop at stop lights or stop signs. In response, the legislature enacted Act No. 2011-580, Ala. Acts 2011 (hereinafter “the Act”). Subsequently, the city’s city council enacted an ordinance incorporating the language of the Act.1

The Act provides, in pertinent part, that a driver who receives notice that he or she…