Here in Miami-Dade country, there is a thriving business in traffic court lawyers. You pay the lawyer $69, he gores to court for you, and if you have not had a ticket in the last three years, and you get no points on your license, you pay no fine and you are off the hook. That is if an officer issued the ticket. If a traffic cam issued the ticket, the lawyers will not take the case at all.
The fine is $158, according to the Miami Herald, and if you do not pay, they will take away your license.
The traffic cam companies take over HALF the fine money. This is a democracy. The people were never offered a chance to vote on some bunch of overcharging scoundrels ripping them off.