PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island court was flooded with people contesting speeding tickets Monday after a new school zone speed camera program resulted in 12,000 tickets in 33 days. 
 
 WPRI-TV reports more than 2,600 tickets were on the docket at Providence Municipal Court, which most days has about 300. The courtroom holds 90 people. 
 
 A court spokesperson said not everyone is expected to show up, although hundreds of people did. They filled the waiting areas outside the courtroom at the Providence Public Safety Complex and snaked out the door and around the building Monday morning to get into court. 
 
 Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio, who presided over a morning session, dismissed many of the tickets because of errors, according to The Providence Journal . 
 
 Caprio is well known from videos filmed in his courtroom. He presides with a folksy humor as people dispute their tickets for red-light running and expired parking meters. Clips from the local show "Caught in Providence" have had more than 1 billion views on social media. The show will begin airing in major media markets this year. 
 
 The errors with the speeding tickets included different notices with conflicting information, such as one notice saying the posted speed limit was 30 mph and another saying it was 20 mph. 
 
 "The city has to get it right the first time," Caprio said. 
 
 The station reported last week that the city issued 12,193 tickets between Jan. 16 and Feb. 22 from five new speed cameras. The tickets cost $95 each and can be issued when a vehicle is caught traveling at least 11 mph over the posted speed limit at certain times. 
 
 State Rep. Anthony Giarrusso introduced a bill last week that would end the use of traffic cameras in Rhode Island. It's unclear whether Giarrusso, a Republican, will have any success in the Democratic-controlled legislature. In a statement Monday, he said the camera systems are "nothing more than a government cash grab." 

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 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The city of Providence issued more than 12,000 speeding tickets – averaging 369 per day – during the first 33 days that its new school-zone speed camera program was in use, according to a Target 12 review of traffic violation data. 
 
 A total of 12,193 tickets were generated from five speed cameras between Jan. 16 and Feb 22, with nearly all of the tickets coming from three locations: Mount Pleasant Avenue, Charles Street and Thurbers Avenue. (The cameras are not in use on Sundays.) 
 
 At $95 per ticket, that means violators were charged $1.15 million in just over one month. The city had already received $370,000 as of Feb. 22, records show. Six additional cameras will be deployed in various neighborhoods next week. 
 
 “Ultimately this is about keeping families safe, especially in areas with many children around,” Mayor Jorge Elorza, a Democrat, said when the program launched. “Tragedies can be prevented with innovative solutions and that’s exactly what these cameras do.” 
 
 Rhode Island lawmakers first approved speed cameras in 2016 when they passed the Automated School-Zone-Speed-Enforcement System Act permitting municipalities to install them within a quarter-mile of any type of school. The Providence City Council voted last May to allow up to 15 speed cameras to be installed around the city. 
 
 Tickets can be issued for any vehicle caught traveling at least 11 miles per hour over the posted speed limit between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to the city’s contract with Conduent State and Local Solutions Inc., the private vendor that oversees both speed cameras and red light cameras in the city. 
 
 Conduent earns $2,978 per month for each camera and $7.50 per violation processed, meaning it was set up to make more than $100,000 during the first month of the program. The Maryland company, a subsidiary of a New Jersey-based corporation that was formerly a division of Xerox, also receives a $3.50 convenience fee every time a violator uses their credit card to pay a ticket. 
 
 The cameras are also portable, and the city’s contract with Conduent allows for two to be moved to new locations each week. As of Feb. 22, the camera in front of Mount Pleasant High School has generated 4,795 tickets; one on Charles Street generated 4,236 tickets; and another on Thurbers Avenue generated 3,126 tickets. 
 
 Two other cameras on Daniel Avenue and Peace Street generated only 36 tickets combined, but the one on Peace Street was stolen in January. (It has since been replaced.) 
 
 Every potential violation is reviewed by a Providence police officer and state law requires the tickets to be sent within two weeks of the violation, but the Elorza administration has asked the General Assembly to extend the notification period to 28 days. (The city successfully lobbied lawmakers for a similar extension of red light camera violations last year.) 
 
 The camera program has received mixed reviews from the public, with critics suggesting the city is simply using them to generate new revenue and supporters saying they are already seeing vehicles slow down in school zones. 
 
 Anthony Brown, a North Providence resident, said while he understands the safety concerns, “I don’t believe people are at school until 8:00 at night.” He also claims his wife got a speeding ticket on Charles Street in the middle of the day, but the picture that accompanied the violation notice appeared as though it was dark outside. 
 
 “I don’t know where in Providence or the state of Rhode Island where it’s dark at 11:42 a.m.,” he said. Brown said he plans to challenge the ticket in municipal court. 
 
 Billy Kepner, a spokesperson for the city, said “an overlay is placed on the vehicle which could cause the photo to look darker.” He said zero tickets have been dismissed. 
 
 The cameras came to Providence just over two years after a teacher at Mount Pleasant High School was killed while crossing the street near the school. The teenage driver, Tarchae Powell, fled the scene but later turned herself into police. She was charged with operating a vehicle without insurance. The teacher’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Powell in 2016. 
 
 Nesha Kingston, a Providence resident, said the cameras seem to be working. She said she sees the Charles Street unit flashing constantly. 
 
 “It has slowed the cars down a lot,” she said. 
 
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 Dan McGowan (dmcgowan@wpri.com) covers politics, education and the city of Providence for WPRI.com. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter: @danmcgowan 
 
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– Rhode Island's Providence Municipal Court has the joyful task Monday of addressing more than 2,600 speeding tickets. The tickets are just a fraction of the 12,000 that were generated within the first 33 days after speed cameras were installed in the city in January, WPRI reports. Outrage over the $95-a-pop tickets has ensued, with thousands contesting them. Typically, the court has just 300 people on the docket on any given day. Not everyone who is appealing their ticket is expected to actually appear in court, though the AP reports hundreds of people did show up. Per the AP, "many" of the tickets have been dismissed so far due to errors like signs that give conflicting information as to the actual speed limit. A state representative has introduced a bill to end the use of traffic cameras in the state, calling the system "a government cash grab," but it's not clear whether the bill will find success in the Democratic-controlled legislature. Also Monday, Providence is set to install six more speed cameras; the city currently has five.