Bexar County commissioners authorized $11,480 in refunds Tuesday for motorists who paid dashing citations issued via an automatic visitors enforcement system that the Texas legal professional normal later decided lacked authorized authority.
The citations had been issued in February and March 2025 via a free standing camera-equipped lidar, or gentle detection and ranging, system utilized by the Precinct 3 Constable Workplace underneath Constable Mark Vojvodich. The system used distant sensing and cameras to {photograph} autos and license plates, permitting citations to be mailed to motorists and not using a conventional visitors cease.
In February, Lawyer Basic Ken Paxton concluded Texas legislation doesn’t authorize constables to make use of automated traffic-enforcement techniques to problem dashing citations by mail. The opinion discovered dashing citations require an interplay between an officer and an alleged violator…