School Zone Camera Information
The City of Albany Mayor and Commissioners along with Albany Police Department worked together to improve community safety by installing state-of-the-art digital speed safety cameras to decrease traffic violations and collisions and to help increase safety around our schools.
Albany Police Department has partnered with Red Speed of Georgia to use school zone speed safety cameras at 9 locations near the city’s schools to decrease potential violations. This effort aims to protect our children from reckless drivers so they can safely get to and from school.
Speed safety cameras are proven to be effective in reducing crashes as well as pedestrian-related injuries. Most importantly, communities that use speed safety cameras consistently report safer roads around their schools.
Our school zone speed safety program helps drivers pay more attention and obey traffic control devices. This is just one of the city's tools to reduce speeding and keep the community safe.
To view the Dougherty County School Calendar visit: Dougherty-County-School-Calendar.pdf(PDF, 275KB)
How do the school zone speed safety cameras work?
The photo speed monitoring systems are set up with sophisticated radar equipment that monitors vehicle speeds as traffic approaches and passes the equipment.
When a vehicle exceeds the threshold limit during school hours, a photograph is taken of the vehicle. A second photograph is taken as the vehicle passes the detection zone to record the vehicle's license plate. The date, time, speed, and location of the infraction is recorded on the digital image.
The Albany Police Department reviews each incident before issuing a citation. The citation will contain vehicle images and a close-up of the license plate.
A Notice of Violation for a speed violation will be issued if your vehicle is found to be traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the school zone speed limit or regularly posted speed limit during one of the following times:
- Within 1 hour before school through 1 hour after school during a regularly scheduled school session.
- During the entirety of a regularly scheduled school session.
For More Information, or to view your citation: