Eyes off
Stark.

Eight cameras on East Canton's main streets wrote 16,490 tickets in eight weeks. 467 went to people who live in the village: nearly one for every three residents.

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The numbers

$1,047,281

sent to the Village of East Canton in the first six weeks of tickets.1 The village has about 1,500 people.2

31 per 100. In eight weeks the cameras wrote 467 tickets to people who live in the village.1 East Canton has 1,521 people, kids included. That's 31 tickets for every 100 of them.2
40%
of what the cameras collect goes to the vendor, Targeting and Solutions.3
$175
the smallest fine, for 11 mph over. $205 at 31 or more.4
2 years
how long the court keeps the camera data.5
Maryland
where your East Canton ticket is mailed from: a processor in Landover.5

A ticket is the part you see.

The rest is a system that watches everyone who drives through town, keeps the footage, and pays a company by the ticket. That's a surveillance state, built one village at a time.

Guilty by plate.

The camera doesn't know who was driving. The ticket goes to whoever owns the car, and it's on you to prove otherwise. That turns innocent until proven guilty upside down.

Paid by the ticket.

The vendor keeps 40 cents of every dollar. A company paid per ticket needs more tickets, not safer streets. That's a sales target, not public safety.

The data outlives the fine.

The ticket gets paid in a month. The court keeps the camera data for two years. Anything stored can be searched, shared and handed over. The safest record of your drive is no record at all.

Cameras multiply.

In April 2025, the same month council approved the speed cameras, the police chief said he was working on a grant to install Flock license-plate readers.6 Those log every car, not just speeders. Systems built to watch some of us end up watching all of us.

Bad for Main Street.

Most of the fines land on the people who drive in to shop, eat and work. They've noticed. A restaurant on the corridor says its customers are down by half, and more than 300 people joined a group to boycott the town.8

Not left. Not right.

Gun owners and civil libertarians, business owners and commuters. Nobody in Stark County voted to be watched. Safe streets come from speed tables, signs, lighting and officers who know the town.

Turn it off.

To the Council of the Village of East Canton:

We ask you to repeal Ordinances 2025-11 and 2025-12 and end the automated speed-camera program on Nassau and Wood Streets.

Keep our streets safe with speed tables, signs, lighting and patrols, not a vendor that keeps 40 cents of every dollar. No one should be tracked, ticketed and stored on a server for driving through town.

Be one of the first to sign.

You
Do you live in the Village of East Canton?

Council answers to village voters, so we count them separately.

How do the cameras hit you? pick any
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I can help:

We'll deliver your name, town and how you're affected to council. We never publish your email, phone or street address, and we never sell or trade them. Privacy. This is a public petition. It isn't the official ballot petition: if you live in the village, we'll ask you to sign that one on paper too.

Village voters decide.

If you live in East Canton, this is your call. Council can repeal the cameras at any regular meeting. If it won't, East Canton voters can put a repeal on the ballot themselves. That takes an official paper petition signed by registered village voters. We'll bring it to your door.

Council meets the first and third Monday of every month at 7 pm at Village Hall, 130 Cedar St. S. There's time for public comment. Come say it to their faces, politely and on the record.7

Not registered at your East Canton address? Register with the Ohio Secretary of State. It takes five minutes.

Live somewhere else? Sign anyway. You're most of who pays these fines, and the next camera contract could come up in your town. Every name builds the list for that fight.