Albany County wages legal battle against city school zone fines

ALBANY — Albany County wants to take its qualms with automated speeding tickets in the capital city to court.

Among various requests included in a new notice of petition filed in state Supreme Court, the county wants more than $7,000 in open citations issued by the city of Albany annulled, claiming that the process for issuing the tickets was unfair and inconsistent.

Data obtained in April by the Times Union through a public records request found 98 school-zone tickets were automatically issued to county vehicles between January and September of last year. Ten of those tickets went to collections…

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