City urged to run photo radar / Annual costs would drop to $555,000 from $2.8 million
Source: Susan Ruttan, The Edmonton Journal (Canada), July 13, 2007
EDMONTON - The city should end its scandal-plagued photo-radar contract with a U.S. company and run the photo enforcement program itself, a new report says. Running the program in-house will reduce operating costs from $2.8 million a year to $555,000 a year, it says.
.......The contract with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services can be terminated with two months' notice, he said.
ACS was charged in 2006 with offering secret commissions to two Edmonton police officers to get a long-term contract worth up to $90 million over 20 years. The company will make its next court appearance Sept. 10.