
Payton Guion
Senior Reporter at Citywire
Investigative reporter @Newsday. Why shoot the breeze about it when you could be about it?
Articles
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Payton Guion
Nassau County Attorney Thomas A. Adams appeared infederal court Tuesday on the order of a judge fed up with the county for delaying multiple civil cases it faces. Adams, in an unusual in-person appearance for Nassau's top lawyer, was joined by four other county attorneys as Magistrate Judge Lee G. Dunst took steps to advance a police misconduct lawsuit filed against Nassau in 2020. "We seem to be stuck in the mud on this case," Dunst said from the bench in Central Islip.
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4 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Payton Guion
The Town of Hempstead says its school bus camera vendor has determined that 80,000 citations issued within school districts that never signed up for the program are valid, months after a town official said the program was "potentially overreaching its legal authority."In a recent statement responding to Newsday inquiries, Town Attorney John Maccarone said the vendor, BusPatrol, conducted "a thorough review ...
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2 months ago |
newsday.com | Payton Guion
Nassau County's Traffic and Parking Violations Agency has stopped hearing cases for school bus camera violations, even as the Town of Hempstead continues to issue tickets under the controversial program. Documents viewed by Newsday show the countytraffic court, which adjudicates town bus camera tickets, was consistently hearing cases through Jan. 30 before abruptly stopping.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
newsday.com | Payton Guion
Jim Vennard was already at work in St. Charles, Missouri, early one morning last September when, more than 1,000 miles away in Stony Brook, a dark-colored Audi SQ8 SUV passed a stopped school bus. Weeks later, Suffolk County accused the 61-year-old engineer, who also drives a dark-colored Audi SQ8, of the violation. He initially thought the ticket he got in the mail was a scam. "I have never been to New York ... My car has never been to New York," Vennard told Newsday.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
newsday.com | Payton Guion
The Town of Hempstead used unlawful evidence against drivers accused of passing stopped school buses, including from bus cameras meant for security, not traffic enforcement, lawyers suing the town allege in new court papers. The filing, made this week in Nassau County Supreme Court, is the latest in an ongoing class-action case against Hempstead's controversial school bus camera program.
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