{"id":1010705,"date":"2026-08-19T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010705\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:02:19","slug":"scottsdale-mayor-failed-to-pay-speeding-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010705\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale mayor failed to pay speeding ticket |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Some residents who receive photo-generated speeding tickets promptly pay them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Others toss the notices in the garbage \u2013 arguing the use of traffic cameras is unconstitutional, inaccurate or just annoying.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After failing to pay a camera-generated ticket, Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky declined to say if she shares the latter philosophy\u00a0\u2013 pleading ignorance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI had no information or knowledge of it whatsoever before I was contacted by a reporter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Scottsdale Police Department Officer Aaron Bolin, \u201cScottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky was photographed by a photo enforcement speed camera at 3:06 p.m. on Oct. 14, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Traveling northbound on Scottsdale Road across Thomas Road, Borowsky was allegedly driving 58 mph \u2013 in a 40 mph zone.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Halloween, Scottsdale City Court mailed Borowsky notice of the violation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Bolin, Borowsky did not respond by the deadline of Dec. 1 she was given.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAfter that date had passed, a contract process server made three attempts to serve the citation at her listed residence,\u201d Bolin said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe process server was unable to make contact with anyone at the residence, and the citation was not served.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why wasn\u2019t Borowsky contacted at City Hall?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe process servers do not attempt service at the offender&#8217;s place of employment,\u201d Bolin said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhen we have a repeat offender, our officers will handle the citation service, and we will visit the offender&#8217;s workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But, Bolin added, \u201cThat is a very rare occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Borowsky citation was dismissed Feb. 28, according to Bolin.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe processed this citation as we would for any other citizen and in accordance with Arizona law,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some residents who receive photo-generated speeding tickets promptly pay them. Others toss the notices in the garbage \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1010706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,138901,1589,7600,178359,404593,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1010705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-lisa-borowsky","tag-phoenix","tag-scottsdale","tag-scottsdale-police-department","tag-traffic-ticket","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117122075692896903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}