New Miami is a village in St. Clair Township, located in central Butler County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio.
It is notable for its involvement in the case of Barrow v. Village of New Miami as a potential speed trap community.
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Around January 2013, New Miami entered into a contract with Optotraffic to fit the village with speed cameras around US-127.
Those caught speeding in the area of the village would be force to pay a fee of ninety-five dollars, but would not result in points being added to their driver's license.
By February 2014, the camera system that was in place was stopped by a Butler County Judge.
At the time, the village had reported that it had received at least one million dollars during the period the system was up.
[9][10][11][12] In December 2015, the village created a new system with Blue Line Solutions to allow officers to use the otherwise automatic speed cameras, which went into full effect in February 2016 with some modifications.
[13][14][15] A lawsuit, Barrow v. Village of New Miami took place from 2014 to 2017 that would eventually force New Miami to pay back the close to two million the village received from the fines and the over one million that was paid to Optotraffic over the approximately forty-five thousand citations that were issued during the program.