"The Department of Transportation has renewed a five-year contract worth about $998 million with Verra Mobility, the company that runs the city's automated enforcement cameras. The deal keeps Verra in charge of red-light, speed, and bus-lane camera programs, even as a long-running loophole leaves cars with temporary tags effectively immune from camera-issued summonses."
"Here is the catch: the cameras can usually read the numbers on temporary paper tags, but the city cannot turn those images into mailed violations. States generally do not provide registration lookups for dealer or paper tags, so there is nowhere for the summonses to go."
"Vehicles with temporary tags triggered cameras 52,003 times in July 2024, about 6.84 percent of all camera activations that month. By December 2025, that number was still 12,775 triggers, or roughly 3.2 percent. Across 2024 and 2025, those records show more than 766,000 camera triggers."
New York City committed nearly $1 billion to maintain its automated traffic enforcement system through a five-year contract with Verra Mobility, effective January 1, 2026. The company operates red-light, speed, and bus-lane cameras while upgrading hardware and supporting future expansions. However, a significant enforcement gap persists: vehicles with temporary paper tags trigger cameras hundreds of thousands of times annually but cannot be issued violations because states do not provide registration lookups for dealer or temporary tags. This loophole, exacerbated by counterfeit tags and pandemic-era scams, has cost the city tens of millions in unissued fines and undermines Vision Zero safety initiatives.
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