A $50 million lawsuit against the City of Stone Mountain (Georgia)?accuses its police of conducting hundreds of illegal traffic stops.? According to the federal complaint filed last week, police wrote traffic tickets based on readings from a laser speed detection device that had an expired certification. The citations were written between Dec. 29 and March 28. Federal law requires that law enforcement agencies have their speed detection equipment checked and certified each year. Stone Mountains' detectors were re-certified in late March. The lawsuit alleges that Stone Mountain police allowed the department's certification to lapse, but kept writing tickets and retaining more than $100,000 in "ill-gotten" fees and fines. Also, in more than a dozen cases, people stopped in Stone Mountain went to jail. Decatur attorney Jennifer Watts represents more than 200 people who were ticketed, and she said Stone Mountain police are continuing to prosecute the cases. "That's the part that trips me out," Watts told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "They know they are wrong, and they're still going ahead with prosecution..." In one case, a client who Watts declined to identify was on probation at the time of his traffic stop, and his driver's license, which he had gotten reinstated, still incorrectly reflected a revoked status. The man was arrested and spent 67 days in jail, she said. "He lost his job, he lost his apartment, [and] he lost his car because by the time he got out, [impounders] wanted so much for storage that it didn't make any sense for him to pay it to retrieve the car," Watts said. "He's basically living in a motel with four other people."
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