Tickets Tossed, Wrong Judge’s Signature Applied: Thousands of Photo Radar Tickets Under Scrutiny

At the Capitol, city officials defended photo radar; the FOIA trail shows the behind-the-scenes mess they didn’t mention.

Through dozens of FOIA requests and internal records, I’ve uncovered how Arizona cities are quietly wiring together a surveillance web — cameras, plate readers, and vendor contracts stitched into daily life mostly without community consent.

In this report, the human faces in the middle of these messes.

First, a police chief whose reputation rises and fall…