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PHOENIX -- A proposal to allow photo enforcement of laws governing stopped school buses would force people who get any kind of photo radar tickets to rat out whoever was driving their vehicle at the time.

The proposal by Rep. Bob Thorpe, R-Flagstaff, would eliminate the requirement that photo radar tickets have a picture of whoever is behind the wheel of a vehicle that is clocked speeding or goes through a red light. Instead, the only thing that would be needed is a picture of the license plate.

What that does is tie the violation to the vehicle rather than the driver, similar to a parking ticket. Thorpe said that would prevent insurance companies from raising the premiums of drivers who are caught violating the law.

The other side of that coin, however, is that vehicle owners who get these citations in the mail would no longer be able to escape a penalty simply by showing that they are not the person in the picture. Instead, they would have the choice of either providing the name of who was behind the wheel or paying the ticket themselves.

Thorpe's far-reaching legislation, HB 2366, also would allow schools put photo radar cameras on their buses even as pressure builds to ban the technology entirely.