Administrative Penalty System for the Red Light Camera and Future Automated Speed Enforcement Programs - Status Update

The current provisions of the Highway Traffic Act ("HTA") and the Regulations under that Act, the City of Toronto Act, 2006 ("COTA") and O. Reg. 611/06, Administrative Penalties do not authorize the City to proceed with an APS for ASE offences. In addition, current legislation and regulations do not allow RLC offences to be processed through an APS. This report recommends that City Council request the Province to enact and/or amend legislation and regulations to allow the City to implement an APS for RLC and ASE offences under the HTA with revenues from these offences being made payable to the City of Toronto to recover program costs. Without the enabling statutory and regulatory provisions, staff cannot provide a full feasibility report including program recommendations to City Council. Once those provisions are in place, staff will report back on the feasibility of adopting an APS for the RLC and ASE programs. At its January 31st and February 1st, 2018 meeting, City Council requested the City Manager to expedite the development of the business case for information technology (IT) solutions to advance the development of the APS for consideration in the 2018 budget process. A new APS case management system that provides financial management functionality and can accommodate all existing and future charges under the City's APS is critical to ongoing APS operations. Given the scope and complexity of a new APS case management system, the project has already been presented to the Strategy Portfolio and Review Committee for 2020 IT capital budget approval. Staff are currently developing a business case and will report to City Council through the 2020 budget process if additional capital funding is required to support the project.

through the use of an Automated Speed Enforcement system and the Red Light Camera system and to ensure revenue from these offences administered through an Administrative Penalty System be payable to the City of Toronto to recover program costs.