Breaking: Arizona Lawmaker Urges Relief for Mesa Drivers After FOIA Reveals Outdated Judges’ Signatures on Citations

An independent FOIA-based investigation highlighting how automated traffic citations are issued and why independent journalism is critical to public accountability.

An Arizona lawmaker is calling for thousands of traffic citations issued by the City of Mesa to be invalidated, refunded, and removed from drivers’ records after Jen’s Two Cents uncovered through FOIA that judicial signatures appearing on citations did not belong to the presiding judges at the time they were issued.

The issue involves civil traffic citat…