Help me fight Connecticut camera tickets.

Why I'm doing this

During COVID, my then-wife was a medical resident driving through New York City to treat patients. Our car started collecting automated school-zone speeding tickets, including while schools were closed.

The tickets were only $50 each, which was exactly the problem: nobody was going to hire a lawyer to fight a $50 citation. I dug into the statute, found what appeared to be a defect in the paperwork supporting the tickets, challenged mine, lost, appealed, lost again, and eventually did something more useful: I built software so everyone else could make the argument for free.

For a period of several months, people using the Camera Ticket Buster were reporting essentially a 100% dismissal rate. Based on the number of users and the value of the citations they were challenging, I estimate the tool helped drivers get more than $5 million in automated tickets dismissed. Eventually the law changed and that particular challenge stopped working.

So we're doing it again.

I haven't gotten a Connecticut automated ticket myself and would prefer not to manufacture one just for research. So I need examples from people who have.

I want the whole thing: front, back, inserts, photos, certificates, appeal instructions, website screenshots, what you submitted, what the town or state sent back, hearing notices, decisions, and anything else related to the challenge.

What I'm looking for

Authorization. Required notices. Timing. Signage. Calibration. Evidence. Human review. Contractor involvement. Municipal ordinances. State statutes and regulations. Appeal procedures. Due process. And whether the same weird thing keeps happening across multiple towns.

Maybe Connecticut built a flawless automated-enforcement system. Cool. I'd still like to check.

Who I am

I'm William “Willie” Peacock, a Connecticut attorney and founder of Peacock Law Firm. My actual practice focuses primarily on QDROs, retirement division in divorce, collaborative divorce, and related family-law matters. Traffic tickets are not my normal practice area. Building legal tools when a process seems unnecessarily expensive, inaccessible, or stupid has nevertheless become something of a habit.

If the research uncovers a legitimate challenge that can be standardized or automated, the goal is to turn it into something ordinary Connecticut drivers can actually use.