City of Dayton v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
87 N.E.3d 176 (2017)
- Written by Sean Carroll, JD
Facts
The City of Dayton (plaintiff) enacted an ordinance authorizing the use of traffic cameras to enforce red-light traffic violations. The State of Ohio (defendant) passed a statute requiring that a police officer be present at the site of any traffic cameras in the state. The state also passed a law prohibiting the enforcement of a speeding violation caught by a traffic camera if the speed was not over a certain threshold above the speed limit. Finally, the state passed a law requiring municipalities to conduct a safety study and a public-information campaign prior to using traffic cameras. Dayton challenged the statutes based on a home-rule provision in the Ohio Constitution permitting municipalities to adopt local ordinances impacting local police, sanitary, and other similar regulations, so long as the ordinances did not conflict with state general laws.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Fischer, J.)
Concurrence (French, J.)
Dissent (DeWine, J.)
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