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Superior Court panel approves Greenville red light cameras

RALEIGH – A three-judge Superior Court panel has upheld Greenville’s Red Light Safety Camera Program as constitutional. The program was approved by the General Assembly in 2016. A lawsuit against the program said it was unconstitutional as it was “related to health” in violation of the state Constitution’s prohibition on local acts passed by the General Assembly related to health. The panel disagreed. Civil penalties related to the red light cameras went into effect in November 2017. The cameras operate at five intersections in Greenville. A press release from the city says since the cameras went in place the city experienced a 27 percent overall reduction in crashes at those intersections with red light cameras, a 16 percent reduction in rear-end collisions and no fatalities at the intersections.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.